Happy Friday everyone! I hope you can find some time to do things that make you happy over the weekend.

Going back to nature

Mosses I’ve seen today

#ThrowbackThursday
2017.

A #portrait that Danielle took of me at Wheelies Motorcycles & Cafe, in the Rock Bay area of #VictoriaBC - for a charity ride event.

https://www.wheeliesmotorcycles.ca/

Photo by:
https://www.dlindenlaubphotography.com/

Watch my new video about the herring spawn on Vancouver Island!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoyLONviL7I

''Stop and smell the wildflowers!'' said the grizzly cub.

A male red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) ready for the Olympics.

Hey #Nanaimo folks. I'll be up your way April 8th-11th. I am meeting & working with a new client who is moving from Nanaimo to Victoria in May. I will have some free time on some afternoons & evenings if Fedi friends want to meet up (DM please & thank you).
I'll be up that way again in May & a few other times this Spring-Fall too, for 2-3 nights each trip, for some cultural reconnection collabs & grassroots, decolonized, community building.

Stumbled across a rocky shoreline and watched the sealions swimming around for a bit. So cool!

Here's a photo that could be in my Herring Spawn video. This juvenile bald eagle was practicing how to catch a small fish in the big sea.

A mysterious collection of large beach stones hidden in the Oregon Grape underbrush. Oceanside ancient Douglas Fir forest on an island near Vancouver Island. With Laladoodle.

#forest #trees #douglasfir #oldgrowth #photography #vancouverisland #dogsofmastodon #oldgrowth #mystery @vi @trees @photography

A beautiful moss covered Western red #cedar #tree - still unprotected.
Only a human, with a compromised & unwell soul, would be OK killing an elder tree this magnificent. Some things are just plain wrong.

These ancient old growth trees are essential to fighting accelerated #ClimateChange. #OldGrowth ecosystems in our coastal temperate rainforests supports much biodiverse lifeforms. The naturally moist environment helps to lower impacts of wildfires & other natural disasters that have increased as our governments continue to fund & enable more ecocidal projects.

#TexturesTuesday

I love interesting tree #bark. These are two very different old growth trees & their unique bark #textures
#Arbutus / #Madrona & Western Red #Cedar.

Let's start the week with a recent photo of a mountain range on Vancouver Island in early morning light. One of the most beautiful place on Earth that I have the privilege to call home.

#MosstodonMonday

Young #cedar #tree is all dressed in magnificent #mosses & #lichen
One of the lovely sights you can see & admire, while exploring the coastal temperate rainforests in BC.

Second growth giant in the Vancouver Island Douglas Fir forest.

#vancouverisland #secondgrowth #douglasfir #trees #forest #bxw #silentsunday #photography
@trees
@vi

Merlin (Falco columbarius) hunting my yard
#birds #nature #vancouverisland #canada

American Crow.

I never tire of photographing these interesting birds. Although common throughout North America, their intelligence and curiosity is always entertaining to watch through my lens.

Pixie cup & lipstick #lichens & #liverwort mixed in with assorted #mosses. Super green microworlds
Just another ecological component of a healthy & biodiverse, coastal temperate rainforest ecosystem on #Wsanec territory.