This gallery contains 4 photos. I shouldn’t be surprised, given our dry spring and summer (Metro Vancouver has been into a Stage 3 advisory — no lawn sprinkling, no car washes, etc. — for the past two months), that Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2015
First Tomatoes!
Second in my Food Under Flash series is the first crop of tomatoes we harvested this summer. Since August 12, we have picked some 10 lb. of tomatoes, and at least another 15-20 lbs. await ripening and picking (both are Continue reading
A Day With the Raptors
This gallery contains 6 photos. Sunday, August 16 was a good day at the 8th Richmond Raptor Festival, held once again at Terra Nova Rural Park. This educational and entertaining annual event showcased a variety of birds Continue reading
In a Brown Study
This gallery contains 2 photos. Lest I be pigeonholed 🙂 … three days after discovering a white peace (white morph/leucistic) dove at Burnaby Lake/Piper Spit, I found this brown morph rock pigeon Continue reading
Creepy to the nth Degree
This gallery contains 5 photos. Nothing evokes creepiness as well as the members of the insect world. Cold, calculating, and chilling are a few more adjectives that have been ascribed to these bug-eyed beasts, who are Continue reading
The Great White Wonder
This gallery contains 2 photos. The brown morph rock pigeon (which appears tinted as pink) at Reifel may have eluded me, but this lovely, showstopping leucistic Rock Dove at Burnaby Lake/Piper Spit took my breath away. Continue reading
Closeups with Killdeer
This gallery contains 3 photos. Killdeer are beautiful, slim shorebirds that I’ve long envied other photographers for being able to get close to. It’s not that I haven’t seen them before. I have seen them engaging in Continue reading
Wide-Eyed with Wonder
Could those pupils be any larger? This is Snoopy the Northern Saw Whet Owl, photographed during the Orphaned Wildlife Life Rehabilitation Society Spring 2015 Open House Weekend (photographed on April 26). Head trauma makes Continue reading
Postcards from Galiano Island
This gallery contains 4 photos. I saw many things of nature–24 species of birds, white-tailed deer, and awesome confluences of sea and sky–to inspire me over the BC Day Long Weekend, but none so much as this shot of the Continue reading