douglas fir babies

caterpillar!

Those are Taliesin's hands.

hydrangia

empty seed pods, wintered leaves, and new leaf bud

forsythia buds

hazel buds and catlings

last year's rose leaves

grape hyacinth leaves

ice-drops on sage

grass coming through snow

groundsel sprout

magnolia leaf skeleton

iced ferns

coastal reindeer lichen (cladiana portentosa) on the ocean cliffs at King Edward Bay

ice-drop on forsythia

usnea lichen covered branch

mosses

cranesbill moss, false polytrichum or wet rock moss (not sure which), stepmoss, and some unidentified and lovely maple tree moss

lichens

arbutus

garry oak

evidence of rain

indian pipe, stonecrop, waxberry, and cotoneaster