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Douglas-fir cone

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leaves, photography, spring

This cone fell into a bunch of new spring growth in our garden and just nestled there waiting for me to take a picture.

Dew on tulip leaves

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dew, leaves, light, photography

Since I was on the topic of dew…

Gull feather

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dew, feather, photography

I found this at the beach, too.

The day after

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beach, herring, ocean, photography, seaweed

Just like little jewels

I seized the chance to go down to the spawning beach again today… I wasn’t finished taking pictures. For one thing, there was all that roe. But there was much more than that, as it turned out.   

Herring

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beach, herring, ocean, photography

Looking west toward Nanaimo from Berry Point Road.

As promised, here are more photos from the herring spawning… 

If you go down to the beach today…

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beach, herring, herring roe, spawn

Roe on kelp

… you might find all kinds of things.

The herring were spawning, so we expected to find roe on kelp.  

Green

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leaves, light, lily, photography

One of the things about spring is the green. (Well, obviously.) But really—it’s such green green. It’s green that just shoots up and shouts “HERE I AM!” with the exuberance of a three-year old, or possibly a puppy.

This is a lily thing in our garden (one of these days I must actually identify it) and it’s particularly enthusiastic. It got an early start this year and then we had frost (well, ice) and I wasn’t sure what that would do to it. But nothing seems to have fazed it.

I was walking by when I noticed light on the shoots—not direct light, but sunlight reflected from a window. It produced an interesting, slightly unearthly effect that brought out the extraordinary colour really effectively. This image shows pretty accurately what it looked like.

Orange seaweed

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photography, seaweed

Very, very orange—or maybe more accurately described as orangey-pink. Very pretty, whatever the adjective.

Arbutus detail

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arbutus, color, colour, photography

Another photo of the arbutus we lost a couple of weeks ago. I was quite taken by the colours in this.