Bartosz (the barred owl) doesn’t know it, but he is my favourite owl and essentially my therapist at this point #bartoszthebarredowl #wildlifephotography #photography #vancouverisland #wsanecterritory

[Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect to waken again… remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring…]

Snowdrops by Louise Gluck

First signs of spring - the bizarre blooms of Hamamelis mollis! (also known as Chinese witch hazel).

Exotic species & a favourite of over-wintering kinglet species.

#hamamelismollis #finnertygardens #universityofvictoria #uvic #w̱sánećtraditionalterritory #photography