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Oct. 5 – Rivers Trail Milkweed
We hiked 6.3 km on the Rivers Trail. Milkweed pods were opening to disperse seeds and we collected some for winter stratification.
Continue reading →Oct. 4 – Blue Clematis
Writing a post about blue clematis for an upcoming post, so I went through my Clematis occidentalis photos.
Continue reading →Oct. 3 – Snapdragons
While doing garden maintenance, I stopped to observe many self-seeded snapdragon plants all in flower, needing almost no maintenance. I just gather some seedheads and scatter them in selected spots for the following year. A nominee for best-in-show for home gardens!
Continue reading →Oct. 2 – Rosehips
On hikes and in the home wild roses have finished flowering, but rose hips are abundant. They are browsed by wildlife, eaten by humans in various recipes/uses, and adorn our borders.
Continue reading →Zillions of Photos
Over the last decade I have taken many, many photos. Recently, I have been pruning and weeding them, then sorting the keepers into named folders. This work will take some months yet, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. In my previous website, I uploaded many images to the website media library. This … Continue reading →
Flowering Plants of the Kamloops Area
A PDF document written by Paul Handford can be found at a page on this website: Flowering Plants of the Kamloops Area There is a download link on the page for anyone who wants their own copy of this PDF document.
Continue reading →Interior Daisies
A guide to Erigerons in the Interior was written by Paul Handford and is shared here as link to a page with a PDF embed: Interior Daisies There is a download button on the page too.
Continue reading →Gattling Gorge Nature Hike
We hiked from Helmcken Falls along the Rim and down to the Clearwater River and back up. The rivers were our focus, but we saw a few plants along the way too. We hiked through mixed forest with lots of moss, lichen, and shrub growth under the evergreen trees on the rim and on west-facing slopes in the canyons. … Continue reading →
Barnes Lake Nature Hike Video
A video is now published on Youtube featuring a nature hike on the Barnes Lake Trails:
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