On the way home from getting a few groceries in south Burnaby, BC, I spotted a patch of Himalayan Blackberries. I found a place to park, and checked them out. Seeing that about half were ripe and juicy, I emptied a water bottle so I could pick some to take home.
While considered an invasive species here, they are pervasive, next to impossible to get rid of. . . and taste delicious :-).
Fill ‘er up!
UPDATE: Later the same day.
When Yumi finished work, we headed back down the slope to the flats and picked nearly two gallons of berries in about half an hour :-).
After checking out the instream work being done on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC (see previous post), I headed down Southridge Drive all the way to the spawning habitat and back up the ravine trail.
Major instream work is happening on Byrne Creek in SE #Burnaby near where it daylights around 17th.
An old culvert is being replaced with a fish-friendlier box culvert with greater flow capacity, and the streambed is being dug out, with mud being replaced with spawning-size gravel and cobble.
Whether or not salmon would get up that high to spawn is debatable, but trout certainly use the entire creek.
I was chatting with one of the workmen and he said they trapped a 10cm coho smolt way up there, when they were dewatering.
We were having a picnic in Ft. Langley, BC, today and this wee bee kept hovering a few meters away. The AF couldn’t find the bee, so I had to manually focus. An SUV’s taillights in the background.
We spent a couple of hours at Burnaby Lake in Burnaby, BC, this morning. Toasty in the sun, cool in the forest. Lots of birds and bees and beasts to see!
This Pacific Chorus Frog was about the size of the first joint of my thumb
