Showing posts with label Uplands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uplands. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Uplands Park Celebration, April 25th




Scenes from the Friends of Uplands Park and the Oak Bay Community Association's day of walks, art and music.

It all took place in that beautiful spot where the Garry oak woodland/grassland meets the view looking south over Willows Beach. It reminds us how lucky we are that people in the 19th and early 20th century had the foresight and nature-appreciation ethic needed to protect large stretches of greenspace. Who is doing that today? Municipalities seem more bent on paving than protecting, more obsessed with growth than conservation. When was the last urban park established in Greater Victoria? Where will the next one be? Where will the next generation of children go to run among the wildflowers?

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Trees in the autumn mist






Trees on a misty autumn morning. Top: near Gonzales Hill. Bottom two: in the Uplands -- the "disappearing curve".


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