Bonus

 I was so intent on getting the flowers in focus despite a bit of breeze, that I didn't even see the spider.

Hooker's fairybells, Prosartes hookeri

The spider's a daylight hunter, and, I think, a male.

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Me estaba fijando tanto en tratar de enfocar estas flores, las llamadas campanas de hadas, que ni siquiera vi la araña. Es una araña macho cazadora, que busca su presa durante las horas del dia. La planta pertenece a la familia de las liláceas, y las flores crecen siempre en parejitas.

A promise of future blooms

It's still early in the season for the rest of our wildflowers. But they're coming!

At the base of a stump, a patch of false lily-of-the-valley leaves. At the top, a salmonberry sprout and a couplle of stalks of (I think) Hooker's fairy bells.

About the false (aka western) lily of the valley, E-Flora says:

Occurs ... on very moist to wet, nitrogen-rich soils ... on water-receiving and water-collecting sites, commonly found on stream-edge sites, floodplains ... Grows with ... Lysichitum americanum (skunk cabbage). Characteristic of alluvial floodplain forests.

Pretty much describes the Nunns Creek wetland.

Young horsetail spike. With lily of the valley leaves and ivy (invasive here).

The fertile stems of common horsetail show up early in the spring, mature and die before the leafy stalks (non-fertile) appear.

Hooker's fairy bells, Disporum hookeri. One flower is open; the rest are still in bud.

Another trillium. I think the red dot is a red velvet mite. It's too small to be sure, but the colour and size are right. Blown up to 400%, I can see the shadows of the legs.

And since they were everywhere, another pink fawn lily.

Fairybells in the forest

In the woods beside Woodhus Creek, the summer flowers are gone; it's berry time.

These are Hooker's fairybells, aka drops-of-gold, Prosartes hookeri.

The berries start off yellow, and ripen to red. Some BC First Nations people ate them, but most think they're poisonous. I haven't tasted them. I will, someday when I'm feeling adventurous.

The berries are finely hairy.