About the size of a strawberry, this looks like an incomplete yet incredibly intricate paper wasp nest. What do you think? Isn’t it amazingly beautiful and intricate when enlarged on the scanner?

I found this on the floor of our solarium while watering some plants. I’d noticed it over the winter attached to the frame of the openable skylight, far out of reach. It probably got knocked down when the skylight was opened during last week’s heat wave.

Compare this to the pieces of another kind of wasp nest.

I love this: from Latin emergere ‘bring to light’

This sometimes affectionate nickname for garlic probably didn’t refer to its subtle beauty but these images do, don’t you think? Joining onion skin and cabbage leaves, it seems that there may be a series emerging… kitchen art?

These are now getting flattened by heavy rains, so I’m glad I picked a few of these on Friday to scan.

Another early harbinger of spring here in Vancouver….

Later, at 1:00 pm – did I say spring? Big fat snowflakes are falling fast, as has the temperature, and we have a snowfall warning! Last weekend all over again, sigh.

It is amazing that the snowdrops are still in bloom. They had a late start and are lasting unusually long with this very cold winter and delayed spring. It’s been sunny and very cold this week but it’s now turning towards rainy days ahead, so I went out to pick some flowers. More scans to come of the others…

now trimmed above new buds
awaiting spring