Rebecca Dart
Animation art director and part-time paleoartist. Living in Vancouver, B.C. 🇨🇦 with a husband, two cats and a few carnivorous plants.
- I hope you all have some peaceful and stressless holidays! ❤️ My husband and I don't buy each other Christmas gifts. We just buy our own and then pretend the other gave it to us. So I would like to thank @robinbougie.bsky.social with all my heart as visions of prehistoric forests dance in my head🌲🪴
- Late summer at the boulevard garden. As a shoe-box apartment dweller, I'm so grateful to have the privilege of caring for a tiny patch of Earth to help decompress from the day and world events 🌱
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- Happiest of birthdays🥳 my true love @robinbougie.bsky.social He is my best friend, he makes me laugh constantly, he is a supportive team player and the best human I've ever met ( our nicknames for each other is Frog and Bear) 🐸🐻
- Today's pics from the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are of fuzzy bumblebees and a beewolf. Like the name suggests, the beewolf is a wasp that hunts bees as food for its young. Some of the nectar rockstars right now are Sea Holly, Globe Thistle, Canadian Goldenrod and Yarrow 🌱
- Summer evenings in the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are magical. As the sun sets over this east-facing hillside it illuminates the tops of the plants and reveals thousands of pollinators as pinpoints of light zipping around as they travel from flower to flower. 🌱
- Took out the microscope to look at some small purple Nepeta or Catmint flowers and buds. You can see the glistening pockets of fragrant oils on the bud that gives it that sage/mint smell. Fortunately the cats couldn't care less about this plant as I'm growing many cuttings on our balcony. 🌱
- Took the bus up to Whistler. We had a great time exploring the turquoise blue glacial lakes and streams. We walked through a grove of trees where bears like to sharpen in their claws 🐻 (and leave behind big poops).
- Mountain botanizing! Pacific Coral Root (Corallorhiza mertensiana) a parasitic orchid that doesn't photosynthesize or produce roots. The Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata) is a partial myco-heterotroph. Then our native Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum) and Sickletop Lousewort (Pedicularis racemosa)🌱
- I just luvs them.
- As the Phacelia fades in the pollinator garden, the Clarkia blooms and becomes the star of the show. One of my favorite things about this PNW native flower is how every plant has a different pink color scheme, but also how the Leaf-cutter bees cut notches out of the petals to use in their nests 🌱🐝🌸
- Parkbus is a service that helps us car-less city dwellers get out into nature. They had a special deal for only $30 round trip from Vancouver to the Othello Tunnels in the Coquihalla Canyon and also the town of Hope, which leans into the fact it's the filming location for the Rambo movie First Blood
