@maureenlaf.bsky.social
Proud CANADIAN 🇨🇦! I love the outdoors, nature, gardening, travel, science, painting with water colours and photography! Believer in democracy and justice. Retired Assistive Technology Consultant. No DMs!
Low tide beauties! #lowtideexploration #PurpleSeaStars #Pisasterochraceus #pacificocean #lowtide #seastars #anemone #fisheatinganemone #sealife
August 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Hornby Island is forever etched in my heart! ❤️ #hornbyisland #helliwellpark #beautifulbc❤️ #beautifulcanada🇨🇦#beautifuldestinations #iphonephotography
June 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hornby Island is forever etched in my heart! ❤️ #hornbyisland #helliwellpark #beautifulbc❤️ #beautifulcanada🇨🇦#beautifuldestinations #iphonephotography
It is amazing how this dahlia plant can have 3 different colours of pink flowers on the same plant! 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻 #nature #wondersofnature #dahlias #pinkdahlia
June 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It is amazing how this dahlia plant can have 3 different colours of pink flowers on the same plant! 🙌🏻❤️🙌🏻 #nature #wondersofnature #dahlias #pinkdahlia
Just chilling on a bud 🐞 waiting for a bug 🐛! 😂
June 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Just chilling on a bud 🐞 waiting for a bug 🐛! 😂
Across the warm night's subtle dusk,
Where linger yet the purple light
And perfume of the wild, sweet musk,
So softly glowing, softly bright,
Tremble the rhododendron bells,
The rose-pink rhododendron bells… ~ Ella Rhoads Higginson #rhododendron #rhodo #iphonephotograpghy #nature #naturephotograpghy
Where linger yet the purple light
And perfume of the wild, sweet musk,
So softly glowing, softly bright,
Tremble the rhododendron bells,
The rose-pink rhododendron bells… ~ Ella Rhoads Higginson #rhododendron #rhodo #iphonephotograpghy #nature #naturephotograpghy
May 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Across the warm night's subtle dusk,
Where linger yet the purple light
And perfume of the wild, sweet musk,
So softly glowing, softly bright,
Tremble the rhododendron bells,
The rose-pink rhododendron bells… ~ Ella Rhoads Higginson #rhododendron #rhodo #iphonephotograpghy #nature #naturephotograpghy
Where linger yet the purple light
And perfume of the wild, sweet musk,
So softly glowing, softly bright,
Tremble the rhododendron bells,
The rose-pink rhododendron bells… ~ Ella Rhoads Higginson #rhododendron #rhodo #iphonephotograpghy #nature #naturephotograpghy
A perfect day. Finding what spring beauty will show herself…the perfect fern unfurling her leaves, the bleeding heart flower heads nodding in the gentle breeze…what could be more beautiful on this beautiful spring day? 🌿☀️
May 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A perfect day. Finding what spring beauty will show herself…the perfect fern unfurling her leaves, the bleeding heart flower heads nodding in the gentle breeze…what could be more beautiful on this beautiful spring day? 🌿☀️
A splash of white rises in blossoms tall
On the Dogwood trees near the stone wall
They have been growing year to year
Now they have bloomed with spring cheer
Decorated in white surrounded by green
They are shining to fill in this beautiful scene ~ Heidi Sands #photography #dogwoodtrees #dogwoodtree
On the Dogwood trees near the stone wall
They have been growing year to year
Now they have bloomed with spring cheer
Decorated in white surrounded by green
They are shining to fill in this beautiful scene ~ Heidi Sands #photography #dogwoodtrees #dogwoodtree
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
A splash of white rises in blossoms tall
On the Dogwood trees near the stone wall
They have been growing year to year
Now they have bloomed with spring cheer
Decorated in white surrounded by green
They are shining to fill in this beautiful scene ~ Heidi Sands #photography #dogwoodtrees #dogwoodtree
On the Dogwood trees near the stone wall
They have been growing year to year
Now they have bloomed with spring cheer
Decorated in white surrounded by green
They are shining to fill in this beautiful scene ~ Heidi Sands #photography #dogwoodtrees #dogwoodtree
“The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the earth.” —Chinese proverb. Happy EARTH day 🌎❤️#earthday #earthday2025
April 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
“The miracle is not to fly in the air or to walk on water, but to walk on the earth.” —Chinese proverb. Happy EARTH day 🌎❤️#earthday #earthday2025
She nodded her head in the breeze
As if to invite the footloose ramblers
Who might chance to pass that way
To feast on her beauty
And taste her fragrance ~ Valsa George #fawnlilies #fawnlily #nativeflowersofvancouverisland #vancouverisland
As if to invite the footloose ramblers
Who might chance to pass that way
To feast on her beauty
And taste her fragrance ~ Valsa George #fawnlilies #fawnlily #nativeflowersofvancouverisland #vancouverisland
April 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
She nodded her head in the breeze
As if to invite the footloose ramblers
Who might chance to pass that way
To feast on her beauty
And taste her fragrance ~ Valsa George #fawnlilies #fawnlily #nativeflowersofvancouverisland #vancouverisland
As if to invite the footloose ramblers
Who might chance to pass that way
To feast on her beauty
And taste her fragrance ~ Valsa George #fawnlilies #fawnlily #nativeflowersofvancouverisland #vancouverisland
As I watched the symphony of rain dance upon my windshield this beauty decided to join me! 🌧️ 🌧️ #loverain #nature #photography #insidelookingout #gulls #seagulls #seabirds
April 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
As I watched the symphony of rain dance upon my windshield this beauty decided to join me! 🌧️ 🌧️ #loverain #nature #photography #insidelookingout #gulls #seagulls #seabirds
"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."
~Lilly Pulitzer
#nature #trillium #bigleafmaple #acermacrophyllum #spring
~Lilly Pulitzer
#nature #trillium #bigleafmaple #acermacrophyllum #spring
April 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
"Despite the forecast, live like it's spring."
~Lilly Pulitzer
#nature #trillium #bigleafmaple #acermacrophyllum #spring
~Lilly Pulitzer
#nature #trillium #bigleafmaple #acermacrophyllum #spring
Spring has SPRUNG in beautiful Victoria BC, Canada 🍁 🌱🌿 ❤️ #spring #nativespecies #bigleafmaple #Acermacrophyllum #floweringredcurrant #westernredcedar
March 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Spring has SPRUNG in beautiful Victoria BC, Canada 🍁 🌱🌿 ❤️ #spring #nativespecies #bigleafmaple #Acermacrophyllum #floweringredcurrant #westernredcedar
I was out walking and came across these beautiful American widgeons and Mallards! Life is always better on a Friday! #americanwidgeon #baldpate #Marecaamericana #mallards #Anasplatyrhynchos #dabblingducks
March 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I was out walking and came across these beautiful American widgeons and Mallards! Life is always better on a Friday! #americanwidgeon #baldpate #Marecaamericana #mallards #Anasplatyrhynchos #dabblingducks
Something non political to start Friday morning. The mountains called and I went! 🇨🇦 ❤️#lovewhereyoulive #beautifulcanada #canadastrong
March 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Something non political to start Friday morning. The mountains called and I went! 🇨🇦 ❤️#lovewhereyoulive #beautifulcanada #canadastrong
How do you say FANTASTIC??? “Bluebird day”! 20 cms of snow fell last night on #mtwashington🇨🇦#wintersnotover #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulvancouverisland
March 13, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How do you say FANTASTIC??? “Bluebird day”! 20 cms of snow fell last night on #mtwashington🇨🇦#wintersnotover #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulvancouverisland
How do you say priceless? I watched a lone orca frolic for about 30 minutes between Campbell River and Quadra Island ✨❤️ #nature
#fabulouslyfantastic #iphone12photography #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulcanada #orca #killerwhale
#fabulouslyfantastic #iphone12photography #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulcanada #orca #killerwhale
March 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
How do you say priceless? I watched a lone orca frolic for about 30 minutes between Campbell River and Quadra Island ✨❤️ #nature
#fabulouslyfantastic #iphone12photography #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulcanada #orca #killerwhale
#fabulouslyfantastic #iphone12photography #lovewhereyoulive #beautifulbc #beautifulcanada #orca #killerwhale
Many, perhaps, from so simple a flower,
This little lesson may borrow,
Patient today, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter tomorrow.
~ Poem by Hannah F. Gould - verse from the Crocus’s Soliloquy-
This little lesson may borrow,
Patient today, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter tomorrow.
~ Poem by Hannah F. Gould - verse from the Crocus’s Soliloquy-
March 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Many, perhaps, from so simple a flower,
This little lesson may borrow,
Patient today, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter tomorrow.
~ Poem by Hannah F. Gould - verse from the Crocus’s Soliloquy-
This little lesson may borrow,
Patient today, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter tomorrow.
~ Poem by Hannah F. Gould - verse from the Crocus’s Soliloquy-
Escaping to a place with “less noise and more green” ~ JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit #nature
#lovewhereyoulive #canada #tolkien #reflections
#lovewhereyoulive #canada #tolkien #reflections
March 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Escaping to a place with “less noise and more green” ~ JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit #nature
#lovewhereyoulive #canada #tolkien #reflections
#lovewhereyoulive #canada #tolkien #reflections
March 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM