Tricyrtis hirta (hairy toad lily)
This species of toad lily is native to southern Japan where It grows on rocky cliffs and shady stream banks. It's orchid-like blossoms open in the autumn when most other flowers have packed it in for the season. These photos were taken this afternoon in Vancouver's Stanley Park.
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People posing in front of a big tree in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1904.
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Stanley Park - Vancouver, Canada | Alex Rybin
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picture taken May 21, 2022
Posted 5/23
Wild flowers in Stanley Park Vancouver BC Canada
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Typha (bulrush, cattail)
A sunny day in November is definitely 'end of season' for these urban bulrushes at Lost Lagoon in Vancouver's, Stanley Park. Bulrushes spread through underground rhizomes which quickly form dense mats. Many parts of the plant are edible and grinding stone evidence suggests that they were used as a food crop as long as 30,000 years ago in Europe. Likewise, here in British Columbia, pre-contact indigenous groups used bulrushes for food, medicine and a variety of other purposes.
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Day 8 and Day 9
Day 8 was my last day in San Diego. Check-out of the hotel was in the morning, but my flight out was not until the evening, so I had one more half-day with my fandom (and roadtrip) friends in La Mesa.
All the goodbyes were done as they dropped me off at the airport (around 3pm). It's been such a blast meeting all these awesome people that up 'til now had just been names, aliases and avatars on fan sites.
Anyway, my flight from Sand Diego to Vancouver left around 5:30pm, flying up the coast until I could see snow-capped mountains below us, sometimes protruding above clouds.
(No prizes for guessing which airline I flew with!)
Managed to spend a bit of time on the flight working on my minibang fic!
Touched down in Vancouver a little after 8:30pm. Customs and baggage claim cleared, taxi ride downtown and I was in my hotel room by 10pm.
It's so weird to be in a place where the sky stays so light so long after sunset - not to mention that the sun doesn't set until 9pm! At 10pm the sky was just beginning to darken enough to call it night.
Day 9, getting my bearings in Vancouver, finding out what I can walk to and where I might need to take the bus, and how to go about that . . .
Decided to take the bus to Stanley Park and visit the Vancouver Aquarium. Took about 200 pictures of fish and marine life and frogs and Amazonian animals (including monkeys).
Then it was off for a walk around (one end of) the park.
Even encountered some of the local wildlife.
On the way "home" I had to stop in at a Rocky Mountaineer visitor center to pick up my boarding pass and luggage labels.
By the time I got back to the hotel my feet were sore from all the walking. So, I stayed in, cooked some dinner (my hotel room has a really good kitchenette!!!) and took it easy for the evening!
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@sherrylephotography picture taken May 21, 2022
Photo taken from on the Lions Gate Bridge. Below is the bike path that follows the seawall in Stanley Park Vancouver BC Canada.
picture posted December 2022
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