Add a touch of nature to the home or office with this wildlife-themed wall hanging. 

Chasing the blue and gold: my first day with the 100mm macro lens. The allure of our front lawn California Lilac in full bloom with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn is irresistible to local honeybees and other pollinators. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. 

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Canvas Print

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed glass coaster. 

Chasing the blue and gold: my first day with the 100mm macro lens. The allure of our front lawn California Lilac in full bloom with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn is irresistible to local honeybees and other pollinators. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. 

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Glass Coaster

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen with this wildlife-themed towel! I love blue flowers, and it's like hitting the jackpot when the huge California Lilac bush on the front blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters. The honeybees can't resist the allure of these flowers, either, and these encounters provide plenty of photo opportunities in the spring and early summer. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature to the kitchen or dining room with this wildlife-themed sandstone coaster. 

Chasing the blue and gold: my first day with the 100mm macro lens. The allure of our front lawn California Lilac in full bloom with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn is irresistible to local honeybees and other pollinators. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. 

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Coaster

Photographing honeybees on our huge blooming California Lilac is such a wonderful challenge, and it's our small attempt to ensure future generations of these tireless little workers. We are able to enjoy the fruits of their labours in the fruits and vegetables we harvest in the summer and fall, and the colorful flowers that flourish, sometimes late into the year, in our climatically mild part of the world.

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Classic Round Sticker

Hold the winning "wild" card with these nature-themed playing cards! 

Nothing draws the honeybees in mid/late May through June like the huge California Lilac that blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer when these tiny winged marvels congregate.

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Stunning Honeybee on the California Lilac Shrub Poker Cards

Celebrate nature with these sticky notes, which feature an industrious little worker pollinating clusters of small purple flowers.

Photographing honeybees on our huge blooming California Lilac is such a wonderful challenge, and it's our small attempt to ensure future generations of these tireless little workers. We are able to enjoy the fruits of their labours in the fruits and vegetables we harvest in the summer and fall, and the colorful flowers that flourish, sometimes late into the year, in our climatically mild part of the world.

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Post-it Notes

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Add a touch of nature and personality to your coffee, tea, or favourite hot drink with this wildlife-themed mug!  Honeybees are one of my favorite subjects to photograph at a close range. I have watched them for hours, pollinating the huge California Lilac that blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn in mid-spring through summer. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. 

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Mug

"Bee" the talk of the office -- or office party -- with this colorful honeybee tie.  Honeybees are incredible workers, visiting hundreds of flowers in a single trip (not day!) The ones in our neighborhood are particularly drawn to the huge California Lilac when it blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Neck Tie

Seeing honeybees at work on our huge California Lilac that blooms with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn is always extremely fascinating. These tiny workers have existed for millions of years, and have been raised by humans for their honey and beeswax for thousands of years in many ancient civilizations. Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Photo Print

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Chasing the blue and gold: my first day with the 100mm macro lens. The allure of our front lawn California Lilac in full bloom with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn is irresistible to local honeybees and other pollinators. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer. 

Based on the original photography of W.H. Sim. All Rights Reserved. See more at zazzle.com/walkswithnature

My first day with the 100mm macro lens. Nothing sets the honeybees abuzz like the huge California Lilac that's blooming with hundreds of bluish-purple clusters on the front lawn. In fact, this bush resembles a purple beehive in late spring/early summer.

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Cards

Japanese Andromeda aka Pieris Japonica is one of my favorite shrubs. It is one of the first plants to flower in the spring--making it an early and obvious choice for pollinators like bumblebees and honeybees--and its slow growing nature makes it an easy-to-maintain natural border plant. Its medley of young dark red leaves, mature yellowish green leaves, and white bell-shaped flowers contrasts nicely against a blue sky and makes for spectacular landscape shots.

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Japanese Andromeda Bonfire Cards

Easily recognizable from far away by their enormous bills, Northern Shovelers, although generally not skittish around humans, do keep themselves at a fair distance from spotting scopes and cameras, and frequent nearby bodies of water or sandbars. This fellow, on the other hand, was just inches from me, feeding just inches from the shore at the local wildlife habitat for quite a few moments before moving on.

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Closeup of a Handsome Northern Shoveler Duck Cards

Add a touch of nature and lighthearted humor to we're moving announcements with this whimsical, cow-themed card! 

A very curious Holstein Friesian pauses to look at us from the Alaksen Wildlife Area as the rest of its herd (obviously responding to a cattle call of some sort) lumbers on without a backward glance. Not exactly what I expected to see while birding the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in late May 2016, but Westham Island *is* full of farms!!

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Funny "We're Moo-ving!" Moving Announcement Cow

Living in a place where the colors change as the seasons each have moments in time to express themselves is always something wondrous to witness. Clockwise from top left: winterberries (Fall), rudbeckias (Summer), sun-dappled green leaves in the forest (Spring), and dusty miller (Winter).

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Colors of the Changing Seasons Quadriptych Cards

As Buffleheads don't congregate in large flocks (4 is generally the maximum) but do keep their distance from humans and potential predators (with the exception of the odd sentry, who investigates all comings and goings of creatures other than itself), it was a pleasant surprise to see both conventions broken in early December 2016, when we spotted a flock of 30 at one of the local ponds, swimming very close to the edge of the pond -- and even anticipating handouts of birdseed! Clearly, these seaducks have become accustomized to the presence of creatures like us!
 
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Getting My Ducks in a Row: Four Buffleheads Cards

A male Tree Swallow quietly sits in the afternoon sun on a tree branch at at Iona Island, showing off his lovely iridescent blue feathers. Photographed in late May 2016.

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Male Tree Swallow on a Tree Cards

My first (and closest) encounter with a Sooty Grouse at Burnaby Mountain. This handsome fellow was hardly shy around the photographers, but kept largely to the base of the trees and the shadows. When the other photographers had left,  he came out for a little one-on-one time, "treating" me to dances around the remaining photographer and softly modulated hoots -- even following me partway down to the playground!

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Beautiful Sooty Grouse in the Grass Cards

Cute Chillin' Mallard Mom Duck & Baby Duckling Jigsaw Puzzle

Mallard Mom with Duckling Onboard Cards

My first-of-year-Mallard-mom-with-baby-on-her-back (one of eight) sighting at the local pond today. Both are sitting in a little grassy area just off the water. These ducklings couldn't be more than a few days old, and already they were swimming and floating like little corks under the watchful eye of Mother Mallard (who was anything but a Mother Hen).

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WWN Cute Chillin' Mallard Mom & Baby

Add a touch of color and whimsy to any room (especially the kitchen or dining room) with this food-inspired clock, which features colorful homegrown banana peppers! Photographed in early September 2017 in the backyard. Customize with or without numbers, and choose from round or square designs.

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A Colorful Trio of Banana Peppers Wall Clock

Colorful Medley Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Apron

Colorful Medley Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Lumbar Pillow

Colorful Floral Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Light Switch Cover

Colorful Floral Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Serving Tray

Colorful Medley Pink Blue Purple Primula Flowers Kitchen Towel

Add a touch of nature and elegance to your life and rooms with these colorful, floral-themed home decor and apparel items!

Their latin name means the first fruits of spring, and rightly so; primulas are a welcome, colorful, and poetic addition to early garden.

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WWN Colorful Medley of Primula Flowers

Use this floral-themed trivet to protect delicate surfaces, tables, and countertops from hot pots, or as an accent piece for the dining room or kitchen.

This particular cultivar of alstroemeria, or Peruvian lily, grows tall and looks great as flower bed plants. They are hardy, breathtaking perennials that bloom from late spring through early summer.

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Elegant Lily of the Incas / Yellow Alstroemeria Trivet

Part brainteaser, part assemble-it-yourself art, this challenging, wildlife-themed puzzle is great for improving muscle memory.

The search for the male Mountain Bluebird at the North Jetty of Iona Island proved futile, but this blue bird -- perched on a twig near the chain link fence along Ferguson Road by the inner ponds -- didn't disappoint. 

The Tree Swallows have indeed returned to Iona Island, but we saw far fewer now than in March 2015 at this same point in time -- and the females had already shown up, too. I observed maybe 20 in flight and just a few perched like this fellow, and not a female in sight.

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Profile of a Male Tree Swallow in the Sun Jigsaw Puzzle

Add a touch of nature to festive year-end celebrations with this whimsical, wildlife-themed Christmas stocking. Personalize with a name or meme. Reverse (for double-sided option) shows identical design. Great for the bird or nature lover on your gift list!

Seeing a Downy Woodpecker (usually the female) on the backyard suet feeder isn't unusual. Seeing this male (busy whittling wood here) and his female (unseen, but preening herself nearby) on the pear tree just when we got a spot of sunshine over the Great Backyard Bird Count 2017 (Feb 17-20) weekend, was!

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Cute Downy Woodpecker on Fruit Tree Large Christmas Stocking

One of several Black-Capped Chickadees patronizing the backyard feeders. I managed to catch this little one perched on the pear tree and catching a bit of afternoon sun, with the blush of autumn behind it (courtesy of the neighbor's giant red maple tree). Photographed in late October 2017.

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Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Cards

Beautiful Honeybee on the California Lilac Cards

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