Time marches

November already! Cold, mostly rainy, freezing last night. Sunrise today, 8:12 AM. Sunset, 5:56 PM., with 5 or 6 minutes being shaved off daylight every day.

But the sun came out Saturday and Sunday. I bundled up and went looking for mushrooms at Roberts Lake. Had to walk carefully, there were so many!

Photos coming. For now, here's the parking lot:

Deciduous trees, still bearing leaves, border an evergreen forest.

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Y ya estamos en noviembre. Hace frío, llueve, anoche se congeló. Hoy el sol salió a las 8:12 de la mañana, y se puso a las 5:56. Por ahora, todos los dias perdemos otros 5 o 6 minutos de luz.

Pero el sábado no llovía. Me puse la chamarra de invierno y fui a buscar hongos en el bosque al lado del lago Roberts. ¡Hubo tantos que tenía que caminar con cuidado para no pisarlos!

Habrá fotos. Por ahora, aquí una del estacionamiento. Los árboles de hojas caducas que bordean el bosque aquí todavía llevan hojas. El bosque, donde no le llega el sol, es de árboles perennefolios.

Remembering blue

Raining again. Whitecaps on the water. Grey skies, grey water, grey mountains, grey-green leaves. And just a week ago, this:

View from two blocks up the hill, looking over to Quadra Island. Leftover pumpkins to firmly place this in mid-November.

From a bit further down the street. The lighthouse on Quadra Island.

Blues, greens, warm light. Oh, the changeable, fickle BC weather!

November flowers

At Mud Bay.

Early, pale sunset. Everything's turning brown, but the tansy's still going strong.

New tansy buds.

Mature buttons

All over buds, and a brown fly

Sea rocket, sheltered between the rocks on the shore.

Same photo, showing dying stems.

And one little brown mushroom in wet grass.

I'm playing catch-up, after a slow November; these photos are from several weeks ago.