Hiking through Belcarra Regional Park, on a sunny, warm April afternoon. It was a day of little things.

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Last Sunday we wandered out to see the Seymour Demonstration Forest above North Vancouver on Seymour Mountain and then hiked along Lynn Creek. (They're right next to each other.)

Nola pointed this out; we both thought it exceedingly wonderful. Stumps often curl themselves into fantastic shapes and this is one of the better ones.

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We went back out to Golden Ears last Saturday evening for a birthday picnic on the shore of Alouette Lake.

This view is looking north from the shore.

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Last weekend (Friday, Good Friday, in fact) we went to Golden Ears Provincial Park and hiked up the trail that parallels Gold Creek to see the falls upstream. They were very pretty, and worth the walk. As was everything else we found on the way there and back.

This little pool was fed by a tiny trickle that came from who knows where. From higher up, is my guess.

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I am, frankly and irredeemably, enchanted with the colours and forms of the flowers that have bloomed in the past few weeks locally. By "locally" I mean, "within a few blocks of where I live." Especially the little ones, the ones that, to the naked eye, look only like so many dots against a field of dark green leaves.

The flowers will shrivel and fall off, indeed many have already, and the leaves remain, but this and the following pictures record the ones that have graced the gardens on Pendrell Street between Broughton and Bute, in early April of 2004.

And, of course, one robin.

We made a trip out to Boundary Bay between BC and Washington State weekend before last. Nola needed to look at it for a job she's working on and I was along for the ride.

It's one of the least colourful places I've ever seen. It didn't take me long to shift over exclusively to black and white.

Rhododendrons from a bush at the corner of Beach and, oh, Broughton? Yes, Broughton.

In early April, the first of April to be pedanticly exact, I needed to get out of the apartment and so walked downtown to catch up with Nola and tease her into taking me out to supper.

This is a camillia bush just up the block.

This is one of the bushes just outside our front door.

We took a walk from Kits Point back to Granville Island on the 28th of March. It was a chill, blustery day, sun shining bright and hard and all the trees in flower.

Braver-than-me sailors had their boats out, sluffing off the winter and reminding themselves why they pay dock fees in Vancouver.