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Ow! 27 Aug 2013 | 01:18 pm
My face is a mass of blisters. Painful blisters. I went to the dermatologist this afternoon, to have him deal with old sun damage. (Actinic keratoses, hard crusty spots across my cheeks and nose.) He...
Éhecatl, Aztec god of the winds 26 Aug 2013 | 02:51 pm
Spotted above our parking lot yesterday: Éhecatl, puffing away If you don't see him, blow up the photo to full screen (left click, esc to return), and stand back. See him now? And isn't he the spit...
Another hard worker 25 Aug 2013 | 01:32 pm
Rain or shine, dawn to dusk, holding on in spite of windstorms, baking sun, meddling neighbours . . . this big cross spider stretches out her nets and waits, prepared to pounce. She's obviously a su...
Using his head 24 Aug 2013 | 01:14 pm
We've been working too hard. In the last couple of days, I've been pruning rhododendrons and rose bushes, cutting down volunteer Oregon grapes, and raking, raking, raking . . . Laurie went out and bou...
Little green apples 22 Aug 2013 | 02:47 pm
The first yellowed maple leaf fell on the garden this afternoon, signalling the beginning of the end of our summer. And under the apple tree at Centennial Park, the ground is covered with small, wormy...
Brown flowers, blue flowers, and white bird poop. 21 Aug 2013 | 03:09 pm
More Boundary Park photos; the details. Around the lake, first: Cattails and stripy green water Rushes. I used to make braids out of these, supposedly to use for something, but I never got that far....
Birding Boundary Park 19 Aug 2013 | 04:57 pm
Just down the hill from us, there is a little park that we somehow have forgotten to visit. We remedied that this week. Boundary Park, so called, I think, because it's on the boundary between Surrey ...
Nose to nose with a dwarf sunflower 18 Aug 2013 | 04:07 pm
Sunflower seeds, in the making:
Winged heart 17 Aug 2013 | 03:21 pm
At the edge of a tiny puddle of a lake, the dragonflies and bluets were dancing. This pair of bluets flew over to where I was looking for frogs (Plop! Plop!) and perched right in front of me. The blu...
Quiet afternoon 16 Aug 2013 | 09:07 pm
The tide was high. It had been raining, just a sprinkle, but enough to clear the beach. With no wind to stir it up, the water was glassy, grey-blue like the sky. In the distance, an eagle called. We ...
