Thinking back upon #Summer memories, walking around #ButchartGardens - on #WsanecTerritory.

#SentinelSaturday

A regal #eagle sentinel, overwatching in #Saanich.

Colquitz River. In Summer.
As seen from the footbridge in Cuthbert Holmes, a Saanich municipal park. Colquitz Creek/River is an important local salmon bearing waterway. It is part of a protected watershed system that includes Craigflower Creek. Both feed out into Portage Inlet & the Gorge Waterway.

#SilentSunday

Beautiful #textures on a #sandstone & #shale #bedrock cliff.

*flip your phone sideways for full view*

During the dark wet winters in #wsanecterritory #fungi still bloom, a ghostly note echoing from tree to tree. The quietest music to be heard. #wander #funghi #pilze ＃キノコ　#forestwalk

The #calypsoorchids are coming up in the forest. They glitter in the dappled light. I kneel, prostrate myself before them. To gaze at their gorgeous lips. To behold their mottled depths. This is a kind of prayer.

Two of my favourite plants! To be honest I have so many "favourite plants" it could be said I love them all deeply. Such textures, shapes, hues and lines. Every plant is art-full and full of spirit. Vibrant. Generous. An integral part of habitats and bi(h)omes. Regenerative, and nourishing to the heart, mind, and sometimes belly. How I love thee....

Spring flowers! They bloom in intervals though some of them overlap and these small measures of time fill me with anticipation and gratitude. This was the first time in #wsanecterritory I've happened upon #satinflowers. They are my newest love. I fall in love so easily... But as Dana says, What's not to love? #wildflowers #springflowers #spring

Mosses have grown on this good Earth for over 400 million years.... Able to withstand drought & freezing, they can survive & thrive in extreme habitats from mountaintops to deserts. Beloved in traditional Japanese gardens I love my mossy friends wherever I go, wandering through forests, staring at the ground, or gazing up at the branches of gnarly trees, moss is there, doing their good work. They grow in the cities too. Look for moss. You will find them. #wsanecterritory #moss #苔 #mosstodon

The swallows have flown away signalling the change in season. Last week I heard the first sweet sad notes of the Varied Thrush. The sun is later to rise, earlier to set. Somehow I never caught up to Summer who was always running ahead of me, like an older sister. Now is the time to note the change in light. The quiet beat of the heart. #wsanecterritory #wildflower #seed #wander #さんぽ

Waiting for the moment. The moment arrives. Gladness blooms inside my chest. The garden in my heart.