A walk in the park

Yesterday we walked through Beacon Hill Park to Cook Street village. At Pic-a-Flic we rented "Little Fugitive", a 1953 black & white film about a 7-year-old Brooklyn boy who takes off to Coney Island after he mistakenly believes he killed his brother. A simple movie which brought back childhood memories and gave us some chuckles.

Here are a few pictures of the park.

Along the back side, the chestnut trees are starting to come into leaf.

I want a decent photo of the inside of one of these White Fawn (Easter) Lilies as the centres are quite decorative and colourful. But their little heads hang down so it's a challenge to focus the camera while it's nearly on the ground facing upward, and the wind is blowing the flowers around.

The Shooting Star (Dodecatheon hendersonii, I think) is a small flower native to western North America from southern BC to California. From the BC Archives website, the name Dodecatheon "has its roots in the Greek words twelve (dodeka) and gods (theos). Pliny gave this name to a spring flower, thought to be the primrose, which was under the protection of the twelve principal gods." I have no idea who Pliny was, but I'm always interested in where words come from.

Heading home we passed by this pond along Douglas Street.

Canada Geese are flying by honking quite a bit lately.

What's that they say about not having your subject facing out of the picture? :-)

For such large birds they have delicate-looking heads. It's nice to have the telephoto so I don't have to get too close. As a kid, geese scared me about as much as our neighbour's bad-tempered Angus bull... although, come to think of it, I never had a bad experience with a goose.

And finally, on the way home out of the park was this magnolia. I must admit, I'm almost getting to like them.