It’s a beautiful Spring day here on south #VancouverIsland. Lunch is cooking on the fire and garden appreciates the good start to the season. Onions are poking their heads up, pole beans are climbing and romaine sprouts are showing. #gardens #campfire

We interrupt your regular program for a photo of the current situation on Vancouver Island where the moss has taken over the trails and trees. Feel free to close your eyes and imagine that you are walking barefoot on cushiony moss.

I have been offering photo tours to locals and tourists in the Comox Valley and on Vancouver Island since 2018.

For some obscure reasons, my well-established business has never been featured in the Comox Valley Vacation Guide. I have been trying to get answers from the Comox Valley Tourism Office for 2 weeks now. Still waiting...

By the way, the guide features other tour operators, including some that are NOT located in our regional district.

Some of my past #PromoWork in #VictoriaBC.
From pro sports events to grassroots nonprofit for kids/teens to motorcycles store to grassroots climate action campaign.
2013-2014 around #YYJ.

First salmonberry flower of the year. (For me here on the 50th parallel, anyhow.) New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/03/and-and-and.html
#VancouverIsland #Flowers #SpringFlowers #Spring #Nature

Put your masks on.
Covid cautious N95 masks collage

A bald eagle looks for herring during the recent spawn on Vancouver Island.

Now available as print on my website: https://www.catherinebabault.com/fine-art-prints/bald-eagle-in-flight-vancouver-island

#SilentSunday

3 kinds of Indigenous smudge medicines.
From top to bottom:
#BraidedSweetgrass
#WhiteSage
#Cedar

Little Cherub visiting the yard today.

Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)
One of the smallest (along with the Carolina) and most colourful Chickadees of North America.

#Birds #MastodonBirders #Birdphotography #WildlifePhotography #vancouverisland

What's up? asked the Roosevelt elk aka wapiti.

Reindeer lichen, with moss, in a rotting log. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/03/cladonias-anyhow.html #VancouverIsland #Moss #Lichens #Cladonia #Nature

#Throwback to being cast as a high school student for a medical science film from an older PhD student at UVIC, 2 weeks after my 40th birthday in 2015. All the actual minor kids cast as students were bigger than me

2016. After wrapping the last shoot on Ollie & Emma #TelusOptik #webseries #FilmProduction at the Village Foods grocery store in #Sooke.
Me & the lighting crew were the last ones to clock out. I was always the last crew to leave sets because I was also the locations manager. We goofed around with wigs & accessories props from my costumes tickle trunk. I provided several props for the production filming from my own personal collections.
I was on contract with Less Bland Productions in #VictoriaBC at the time.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5966078/
https://orcacovemedia.com/project/ollie-emma/

Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation repatriates more than 100 cultural items from New York museum
Items taken from Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in the early 1900s will return home to Vancouver Island Monday from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
#repatriation #museum #culture #history #NewYork #VancouverIsland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mowachaht-muchalaht-first-nation-repatriation-1.7496466?cmp=rss

Beau got the abalone eyes in last night. He starts painting it soon.

Please support BC Indigenous artists https://www.beauwagner.ca/coast-salish-art/shop/

Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation repatriates more than 100 cultural items from New York museum
Items taken from Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation in the early 1900s will return home to Vancouver Island Monday from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
#repatriation #museum #culture #history #NewYork #VancouverIsland
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mowachaht-muchalaht-first-nation-repatriation-1.7496466?cmp=rss

Black-Tailed Deer.

The Colombian black-tailed deer is the only species of deer found on Vancouver Island and are often found in and around urban areas. This particular deer was photographed near a busy road in Campbell River.