milkweed
2025-10-05 / Journal

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...
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clematis
2025-10-04 / Journal

Oct. 4 – Blue Clematis

Writing a post about blue clematis for an upcoming post, so I went through my Clematis occidentalis photos.
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2025-10-03 / Journal

Oct. 3 – Snapdragons

While doing garden maintenance, I stopped to observe many self-seeded snapdragon plants all in flower, needing almost no maintenance.   ...
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rose hips
2025-10-02 / Journal

Oct. 2 – Rosehips

On hikes and in the home wild roses have finished flowering, but rose hips are abundant.     They are browsed...
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2025-08-09 / A Wildflower Journal

Zillions of Photos

Over the last decade I have taken many, many photos.   Recently, I have been pruning and weeding them, then sorting...
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2025-06-14 / A Wildflower Journal

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...
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2025-06-13 / A Wildflower Journal

Interior Daisies

A guide to Erigerons in the Interior was written by Paul Handford and is shared here as link to a...
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2025-05-15 / A Wildflower Journal

Gattling Gorge Nature Hike

We hiked from Helmcken Falls along the Rim and down to the Clearwater River and back up.    The rivers...
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2025-04-28 / A Wildflower Journal

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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2025-04-01 / A Wildflower Journal

Uplands Trails

On a 6.25 km hike on the Uplands Trails I spotted meadowlarks, bluebirds, woodpeckers, and crows.    There were hundreds...
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