Tag Archives: nature

Courtenay Air Park flowers

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Katherine

Spring flowers at the Courtenay Air Park [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.303273566463028.1073742138.123247217798998&type=3″ size=”187″]

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A bit of nature – Purple

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Katherine

Purple – Oyster River

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A bit of nature – Red and green

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Katherine

Pine cones – Oyster River

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Beacon Hill flowers

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Katherine

Beacon Hill Park flowers – the way that I saw them [fbalbum url=”https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.301944946595890.1073742133.123247217798998&type=3″ size=”187″]

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A pair of ducks

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Katherine

A pair of mallards – the drake (male) above, and the female duck below

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Evening flowers

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Katherine

A little walk around, enjoying the flowers of spring. With a camera, of course…

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The tide line

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Katherine

The tide line at Kye Bay – a mix of herring roe and sea weeds

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Sand Dollar

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Katherine

Sand dollars have a rigid skeleton (known as a test) consisting of calcium carbonate plates arranged in radial pattern. In live sand dollars the test is covered by a skin of velvet-textured spines that are covered with very small hairs … Continue reading →

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A scallop shell

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Katherine

Scallop shell from Baynes Sound near Buckley Bay

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Fauxtoart – The way it wasn’t

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Katherine

Baynes Sound scallops – threatened by global warming and pollution…

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