Dora's Page: An often-daily photoblog to assure Connie's Mom We're Still Here

Link to First Five Years of "Dora's Page", 2019-2024

2024 December 19: New Windstorm, New Costs

These are not from the big windstorm a month ago. Apparently, the one about four days ago was bad enough to do these trees in. A passer-by noted bitterly that thinning the trees out made them less protected.

These are all on the same trail, too; I have a bad feeling there are far more around the park.

There's the weird urge to prop them up again, somehow - unless they broke to bits as they crashed.


2024 December 18: Skating Rink Downtown!

2024 December 17: Xmas at Butchart (V)

2024 December 15: Three Views of Lost Lagoon

2024 December 14: Xmas at Butchart (IV)

2024 December 13: Xmas at Butchart (III)

2024 December 12: Xmas at Butchart (II)

2024 December 11: Xmas at Butchart (I)

2024 December 10: Puddles

2024 December 9: Best of Dark and Light

2024 December 8: Love Triangle Up High

2024 December 7: The (Tree) Bodies Stacked Up

2024 December 6: Misty Mountain Plays Peekaboo

2024 December 5: In the Mist

2024 December 4: Last Rose of December?

2024 December 3: Waves

2024 December 2: Ravens Up High

2024 December 1: Holly

2024 November 30: Bombed Trees (VII)

2024 November 29: Bombed Trees (VI)

2024 November 28: Home for a Homeless

2024 November 27: Siwash Rock in a Storm

2024 November 26: Rainbow over Esquimalt

2024 November 25: Bombed Trees (V)

2024 November 24: Bombed Trees (IV)

2024 November 23: Bombed Trees (III)

2024 November 22: Bombed Trees (II)

2024 November 21: Trees Bombed by the Cyclone

2024 November 20: Very Wide Lagoonscape at Sunset

2024 November 19: Very Wide Seascape at Sunset

2024 November 18: Yarrow, and Fish-ladder

2024 November 17: Ten Years Since I Left the Old House

2024 November 16: New View of the Aquarium Pools Ruin

2024 November 15: Alan and Tracy's: Colwood from Royal Roads

2024 November 14: Rememberance Day Redux

2024 November 13: Vancouver Skyline with Perfect Mirror

2024 November 12: Still More Windstorm Costs

2024 November 11: Lest We Forget Bill Gibb

2024 November 10: Windstorm Cost IV/III

2024 November 9: Two Lilies from Alan

2024 November 8: The Cost of the Windstorm (III/III)

2024 November 7: The Cost of the Windstorm (II/III)

2024 November 6: The Cost of the Windstorm (I/III)

2024 November 5: Last Day of the Cherry Trees

2024 November 4: One Dreary Day

2024 November 3: Heron Framed in the Leaves

2024 November 2: Last Fall of the Doomed Forest (Again Again)

2024 November 1: Last Fall of the Doomed Forest (Again)

2024 October 31: Last Roses of Summer (2024)

2024 October 30: Atocha Station, Madrid

2024 October 29: Yes, It's Fall

2024 October 27: Fuencarral

2024 October 26: Greatest Art Store Ever

2024 October 25: Alan and Tracy at Rideau Falls

2024 October 24: Plaza Chamberi, Madrid, for Kids

2024 October 23: Hugh Costello's Timeline of Decisions

2024 October 21: Citadel of Valencia

2024 October 20: Streets of Valencia

2024 October 19: Space Hotel in Barcelona

2024 October 18: Restaurant of Lights

2024 October 17: Woman, Man, Duck in the Jardin

2024 October 16: Paris Stairs and Gardens

2024 September 20: Extra Day for Goodbye!

2024 September 19: Alan's Peahen

2024 September 18: "All Things Electric" Show IX: Odds and Ends

2024 September 17: "All Things Electric" Show VIII: Marine

2024 September 16: "All Things Electric" Show VII: Minimobility

2024 September 15: "All Things Electric" Show VI: Test Driving

2024 September 14: "All Things Electric" Show V: Electric @ Work

2024 September 13: "All Things Electric" Show IV: BIG Money

2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show III: Micromobility

2024 September 10: "All Things Electric" Show II: Luxury

2024 September 9: "All Things Electric" Show I: Not

2024 September 8: Two Views of Lion's Gate

2024 September 5: Tree Shadow Creates Mural

2024 September 4: Cutest Things in the Park

2024 September 3: Embracing the Aquarium

2024 September 2: The Ross Fountain

2024 September 1: Heron and Flower

2024 August 31: Pointing Up and Down

2024 August 29: Sunken Garden, Perfect

2024 August 28: Ride Around the Seawall, Busy

2024 August 27: New Otter Pups!

2024 August 26: Shakespeare; And, At the Aquarium

2024 August 25: Two Kinds of Coleus

2024 August 23: Zinnia

2024 August 22: Development is Big

2024 August 21: Beech Nuts

2024 August 20: Bluecrown Passionflower

2024 August 19: Ducks on a Log

2024 August 18: Hollyhock

2024 August 17: Seaside Fleabane

2024 August 16: More Ravine Trail

2024 August 15: Lisianthus

2024 August 14: Phone addiction at Beaver Lake

2024 August 13: Japanese Andromeda

2024 August 12: Plants with Veins

2024 August 7: A Peeled Truck

2024 August 3: One Ugly Flower

2024 August 1: Sunset the Colour of Blood

2024 July 31: Flowers I Misnamed

2024 July 30: Visit to the Sea

2024 July 29: Swallows

2024 July 28: Ready for their Closeup

2024 July 27: Spacing, Then and Now (Pandemic ends)

2024 July 26: Fuschia Rocks!

2024 July 25: Old House, Old Tree, Old Crow

2024 July 24: Spear Thistle

2024 July 22: Lost Lagoon Scum

2024 July 21: Mt. Baker, 5AM

2024 July 20: 33rd Anniversary! Spiders and Spray

2024 July 19: Verbena

2024 July 17: Efficient Housing in West Kelowna

2024 July 6: Last Post for a Week: Lily

2024 July 5: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (II)

2024 July 4: Clearing Out Beairsto Bounty (I)

2024 July 3: Rose Garden is Back for 2024, Baby!

2024 July 2: Green and Red

2024 July 1: Canada Day Birds

2024 June 30: Long Exposure at Bolton

2024 June 29: Fuschia Shock

2024 June 26-27: Splendor in the Grass

2024 June 25: Under the Canopy

2024 June 24: Short and Wide

2024 June 23: Catching Up With Allan

2024 June 22: I Got Back to Work!

2024 June 20: I Got Into The Newspaper

2024 June 19: Deer and Sticky Willie

2024 June 18: Think Pink!

2024 June 17: Alan's New Flowers: Busy Lizzie

2024 June 16: Flock Gathers Below My Podium

2024 June 15: Bell with an Ant

2024 June 14: Just Ducky

2024 June 13: Rugosa Rose, and Oh, Deer!

2024 June 12: Azalea

2024 June 11: Beairsto Backlog

2024 June 10: Resumption of Dora's Page with Alan!

2024 June 6: The Great Calgary Mainbreak of 2024

2024 June 5: Rainy Day Pictures

2024 June 1: Allium and Pansy

2024 May 31: Rose Garden Up and Running

2024 May 30: Beaver Lake Lily Pads

2024 May 29: Low Tide

2024 May 28: Duck Couple with Two Ponds

2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings

2024 May 26: Yellow-White Iris

2024 May 27: 12 Geese Parents, 20 goslings

2024 May 25: Happy Park Crowd

2024 May 24: Flowers from Alan and Loblaw

2024 May 23: Not-Dead Tree and the Lordly Goose

2024 May 22: Layers of Flowers at the Golf Course

2024 May 21: Siberian Bugloss

2024 May 20: Streets of Flowers

2024 May 19: Rhodo Rampage

2024 May 18: Stand of Bamboo?

2024 May 17: Two Gardens, One Ready, One Done

2024 May 16: Swampwading, Dry Pool

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