Amongst the growing yarrow and the fallen arbutus leaves, nestle in the dead yarrow of years passed I notice what looks just like deer poo.

Deer poo but no deer hoof prints.

A whole corner of the meadow was flatten and poo was everywhere.

The flattened corner of the meadow

Piles of poo

Poo amongst the grasses

This was a flower we had not seen before. We looked it up in the Pojar-McKinnon book and discovered it must be Fare-Well to Spring. It is a flower Native to the area and one that we planted as seeds. It flowers in summer when all the other flowers have already flowered and gone to seed.

When this plant is small it looks very similar to yarrow so I was allowing it to grow. Now that is has begun to flower we can look it up to find out ... it's pineapple weed, introduced from Europe. With that identification we pulled it up and toseed it away. Yes, it did smell like pineapple.

This is an interesting plant I found tucked away under another plant. It is very small as you can see. I think that it is Beach Sand Spury, which makes the meadow a very strange place for it to be. Either that or it's thyme in flower. Hmmmm.

All the cedar stakes are broken on the fence ... we will have to replace the fence.

The plants we planted right before spring break look a little stressed and are flowering too soon.

The Kwetlal (Camas) is growing well and will be blooming soon.