Our local MP Peter Julian and MLA Raj Chouhan hosted their annual summer BBQ in Ron McLean Park in southeast Burnaby today. It was great fun, with local band Rainshadow providing entertainment.
Here’s my Flickr album of the event.
Category Archives: Photography
Today’s Cornucopia – Yum!
We got ten cobs of fresh corn at HMart today for, I think it was $5.98. A minute or two in boiling water and it’s fantastic, not even any salt or butter, just natural sweetness.
Snail Mesmerizes Cat
Choco wanted out on the balcony to lap fresh rainwater off of leaves. When I went back a few minutes later to check on her, I found her mesmerized by a snail.
Raining Rodents in Burnaby
I heard a light thud on the roof, or perhaps a window, and looked out to see a rodent on the walk in front of our door.
Dropped by a raptor?
I put on a pair of disposable medical gloves (rodents can carry parasites) and put it in a box. I know a biologist who uses desiccated beasties for teaching, so it’s double bagged and in the freezer.
Nature Tour of Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby, BC
It was a sunny, hot, blue-sky morning for a nature tour of Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby. Thanks to Pamela Zevit of the South Coast Conservation Program who led the informative tour, and who brought along a show-and-tell kit of cool animal stuff!
Met the Otter at Deer Lake Again
After our Deer Lake canoe shakedown cruise two days ago, we were going to canoe Burnaby Lake, but discovered there was a regatta in progress. So it was back to Deer Lake where we saw the otter again, and what appeared to be a juvenile bald eagle.
This little fella was hanging around right where we saw him/her two days ago.
Hide and seek among the lily pads
This kingfisher was too far away for a good shot with my teeny pocket Canon PowerShot 520HS, so rather grainy in this blowup.
I am loath to take my DSLRs and big lenses canoeing!
Canoeing Burnaby’s Deer Lake
We dusted off the canoe and went for our first spin this year. Just been too busy to get out with Yumi both working full time and taking classes.
It was a lovely morning for a shakedown cruise, and we paddled leisurely around the lake a few times.
Heading out with Yumi in the bow
Yumi is always in the bow, seeing as I outweigh her by about 100 pounds : -)
Lots of Canada Geese on the beach and lake
Metrotown skyline
This furry water beastie approached us, coming quite near before turning away
Otter?
Some years ago Burnaby designated the west end of the lake as a no-go wildlife area. People, please respect this haven.
A cormorant and three herons
You can clearly see the importance of this small area of urban biodiversity
An escort of mallards
A visit from a damselfly
Yumi doing her best to keep invasive Himalayan blackberries in check : -)
This pretty mallard was pretty used to people, perhaps overly so!
Gliding toward Arthur Erickson’s Baldwin House
Back ashore at the east beach
Lovely Afternoon Walking Campbell Valley Regional Park
We fed the chickadees and enjoyed a multitude of other flora and fauna in Campbell Valley Regional Park, part of Metro Vancouver’s wonderful parks system.
You can see some of my photos in a Flickr album.
1963 Passport Photo
Some office cleaning today turned up a 4 X 5″ negative of a passport photo of my late Dad, taken in 1963.
Yep, in those days they still shot on 4 X 5, likely did a contact print, and then physically cropped to passport size.
More Dragonflies, Bees, and Moths in Fraser Foreshore Park
I love the ponds in Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby, BC. I get down there for photo shoots often. The previous post featured a heron chowing down on a rodent, but this post is the dreamier side of nature : -).
