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Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this placemat. It’s not every day that you see big blue fir cones in Vancouver. The abies koreana is an endangered fir found in the mountains of South Korea. This is one of (at least) two such trees planted on the grounds of the UBC Botanical Garden.

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

Big Blue Korean Fir Cones Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat. 

After sitting outside for an hour and a half as the afternoon snow fell quickly and in fat clumps this afternoon, this beautiful male Varied Thrush finally ventured to the bowl of the seed on the ground. Occasionally, he would look up and gaze in my direction before resuming his meal. After eating his fill (and keeping the other, smaller songbirds at bay), he returned to flipping leaf litter under the thicket. My first time photographing a Varied Thrush in the snow. Taken in early February 2017. 

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

Beautiful Varied Thrush Songbird in the Snow Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this floral-themed placemat.

Also known by their other aliases of "Red Star" and "Rosy Posy" (my favourite), I found a bed of these small but hardy South African perennials flourishing in one of our local public gardens. Summer brings forth bright pink star-shaped flowers with their telltale hidden hearts -- low growing plants that make great ground cover.

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

Rhodohypoxis / Red Star / Rosy Posy Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat.

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.

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

Profile of a Male Tree Swallow in the Sun Placemat

Add a touch of color and tastiness to the dining experience with this food-based placemat, which features a medley of homegrown dark purple bell peppers and colorful heirloom green, yellow, orange, and red tomatoes! A great idea for the foodie, gourmet, or gourmand on your gift list! Personalize with first name or surname.

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

Colorful Tomato & Purple Bell Pepper Medley Placemat

Add a touch of nature and elegance to your dining experience with this floral-themed placemat. Community gardens are a wonderful place to see not just veggies and fruits, but a great variety of beautiful flowers. These beardless purple irises caught my eye at Richmond's Terra Nova Rural Park in late spring 2015.

Dutch Iris Purple Sensation Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this placemat. 

I am surrounded by a vibrant sea of greens and purples as I take a lavender-lined walk in the summertime in one of the oldest public gardens in Metro Vancouver, Canada.

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

Stunning Lavender-Lined Garden Walk Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your dining experience with this wildlife-themed placemat. This is the second hummingbird nest I've found. An Anna's hummingbird second-time mother (who had just raised two babies to adulthood a few days before successfully mating again) sits on her precious nest, lovingly and painstakingly made with lichen, moss, and spidersilk.

An Anna's Hummingbird Mother-to-Be Placemat

Add a touch of nature to your tumbler with this wildlife-themed design!

The start of the growing season means the return of the diminutive but feisty Rufous Hummingbirds to Metro Vancouver. From March through August, their presence means increased competition for nectar feeders and flowers for the resident Anna's hummingbirds. This fellow was one of five Rufouses to visit the Richmond Nature Park regularly on an early spring day. We witnessed extremely vocal and physical territorial disputes (which were, rather comically, inversely proportional to the size of the combatants). Photographed on April 4, 2016.

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

Perfectly Posed Male Rufous Hummingbird Thermal Tumbler

This was a Christmas Day filled with plenty of birds in the backyard -- including this rather introspective Black-Capped Chickadee looking skyward on the pear tree. Sunny skies and chilly temps made my puffed up and sleepy feathered friends reluctant to stir from their perches, and that led to a few opportunities for closeups of birds I normally find difficult to get stills of.

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

A Black-Capped Chickadee on the Pear Tree Keychain

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Jigsaw Puzzle

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Tote Bag

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Post-it Notes

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Square Wall Clock

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Tile

Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly Trivet

Next to the Brown Hawker dragonfly who made a beeline for me last summer and decided that my denim-covered leg would make a nice warm perch for a few minutes, this extremely accommodating Canada Darner dragonfly has got to be one of my best insect subjects. S/he didn't twitch in the 30 minutes I spent photographing it, and as a matter of fact, stayed on the exterior of the house for at least another 15 minutes before flying off!

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

WWN Closeup of a Canada Darner Dragonfly

WWN Japanese Andromeda Bonfire

WWN Satin Flowers on Black

WWN Elegant Maple Leaf Tulips

WWN Elegant Pink Lotus Flowers

WWN Elegant Casablanca White Oriental Lilies

WWN Red and Yellow Monsella Tulips

From tulip and rose to iris and lily, flowers mark the seasons in North America, and they dazzling with a multitude of shapes and colors.

WWN Floral

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

A herd of harbour seals was basking in the summer sun as the ferry pulled out of the Tsawwassen Ferry Causeway. Most of these pinnipeds ignored the behemoth moving in their midst, but a few, like the curious one on the left, would lift its head to see what the commotion was all about before assuming its original position. Photographed over the 150th Canada Day long weekend in early July.

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

Harbor Seals Basking in the Summer Sun Jigsaw Puzzle

You'd never guess, from her playful and youthful manner, that Stella is actually 10 to 12 years older than she looks! This indoor sweetie is as likely to cuddle up to the laps of strangers as she is to those of her regular pair of humans, but she knows how to puts her paw down as far as dogs (especially big dogs) are concerned.

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

Stella the Gray Cat Magnet

Add a touch of nature to any room with this wildlife-themed wall hanging.  

A young sub-adult male Anna's hummingbird was taking five in the scarlet firethorn next to its pommes on an unseasonably prolonged cold snap. Unlike most other birds who frequent this bush in the fall and winter, he didn't seem to mind that I wrestled the window open (however softly I did it), and took a few shots of him next to the bunch of berries that's almost as big as he is. Photographed in mid-December 2016.

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

Big Blue Korean Fir Cones Placemat

Big Blue Korean Fir Cones Placemat

More from Walks with Nature

Other table placemats from various stores