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 →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 →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 →
A video is now published on Youtube featuring a nature hike on the Barnes Lake Trails:
Continue reading →On a 6.25 km hike on the Uplands Trails I spotted meadowlarks, bluebirds, woodpeckers, and crows. There were hundreds of yellow bells (Fritillaria pudica) in flower, lots of sagebrush buttercups (Ranunculus glaberrimus), some mosses starting to show signs of recovery, rust-infected mustards (Puccinia monoica) and desert parsley (Lomatium macrocarpum) getting ready to flower. All photos from the nature hike … Continue reading →
From mid-March to mid-November, the pattern each day is usually the same: Hike, paddle, run, tennis, etc. in the morning (once each day). Work in the garden in the afternoon. The first weeks of gardening have been busy, but sometimes limited by the weather: Cleaning up garden beds (ongoing). Pruning fruit trees and shrubs. Cutting back stems from last year’s … Continue reading →
I hiked Battle Bluff on a cool and windy day. No wildflowers were out, but there were a few evergreen herbs and lots of lichens and mosses. Just three are shared here: Geum triflorum (old man’s whiskers): Alumroot (Heuchera cylindrica): Crinkled Snow lichen (Flavocetraria nivalis): :
Continue reading →The first wildflowers of the year were spotted in the Deep Lake. Two drifts of sagebrush buttercups were in bloom just off the trails.
Continue reading →A hike down the Estuary to Cooney Bay, around the bay, and over the bluff, then back. Still ice on the shoreline, but the River is running. Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium) on the bay: Some poison ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii) in the rocks above the bay: And, orange crustose lichen, probably Elegant Sunburst Lichen (Rusavskia elegans) on the bluff: A sunny day … Continue reading →
Even though it is February and we are a few weeks away from real gardening, there are a few chores underway. Stratifying some seeds – cleaned up collected seed for hellebores, blue-eyed grass, and echinacea. Each in a container with some damp soil and into the freezer for 3 weeks. Some to be seeded in rows, some to go … Continue reading →
