Colours of spring

Rhododendrons

With one wee weevil.

Bee's-eye view.

And an iris.

Purple and yellow. No weevils visible.

Because I was browsing in a roadside garden, and its flower season.

Irises at Elgin Park

Laurie risked life and limb (well, maybe not life), dangling from a Scotch broom over a steep bank to get this photo:

The first of the irises.

I was lazier, stayed on top of the bank, and just pulled aside the branches to get a bud.

The background is a yellow-brown scum, spotted with cottonwood "snow".

I'm still processing photos from that walk. And I should be in bed.

Between town and shore

To the lonely sea and the sky . . . *

Path to the beach

Escaped from the garden, sharing the dunes with weeds and logs.

Somebody's beach shack, roofless

Motto over the door. Good reminder.

A Skywatch post.

*From Sea Fever, by John Masefield.

Not a purple spider

It was a purple day. We found purple irises in the sand at Boundary Bay, small, very purple irises in a driveway in Beach Grove, purple pansies in roadside gardens, and acres of purple lathyrus on the dunes. Add in a couple of purple shore crabs and a tall lilac bush. Purple!

Irises swaying in the wind.

I didn't even see the spider right in front of my nose until I looked at the photos. Here she is:

Laying in wait.

She's a crab spider, not camouflaged. But in the rainbow of colours all around, who's to notice? I'm sure she'll get a meal.

There's a second spider, if you look carefully at the top photo. Can you find it?

Besides purple, there was much more to be seen. We came home with hundreds of photos, and I was already behind with my sorting and processing. I need a rainy week!

And I've got baby, as in infant, barely here, hermit crabs! More later.