You’ve seen those magazines meant for people with too much free time. They publish articles like 10 twee things to do with moss this weekend! And they want you to plant moss gardens in teacups, say. Or in bottles. But here on Gabriola we’re way ahead of the game, see? Bottles, even broken ones, get [...]
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I find all kinds of junk in the Gabriola forest, and much of it is puzzling. Like this sheet of glass, for instance. Who the heck leaves glass in the woods? And now, hmmm. What will I do with that glass? (I brought it home, of course.) Maybe it’ll become a cold frame for my [...]
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We’ve got all sorts of things rusting away in the Gabriola woods; this is one I stumbled upon a few days ago. What do you suppose it is?
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I did show you the clothes dryer in the forest, back in 2009. For the last couple of years it’s been adorned with a skull, which rests atop what is probably the lint catcher.
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Huge numbers of things have been dumped in the Gabriola woods over the years. Other than the grow-op trash, I’d thought we were mostly past that. Apparently not. Somebody’s taken rather a lot of broken glass and left it smashed at the side of the road, where it’s spilling into the forest. Rats.
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Is this ever annoying! This ought to be a beautiful spot in the Gabriola forest. It was a beautiful spot, until somebody came along and dumped a huge amount of rubbish here. It’s all plant-starting stuff, like perlite, vermiculite, plastic, starter pots, dead seedling plants, and whatnot. HMPH.
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Today we went for a walk in Gabriola’s snow-clad forest, and followed some deer tracks. All the deer seem to love this place, where there are at least two (and probably several) old wrecks. Maybe the deer live in them! Oh, and what colour are they ALL? Yup. They’re turquoise. Like this turquoise and that [...]
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This is another of the wrecks rusting in the Gabriola woods. How long until the forest covers this one completely?
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Twinflowers are all over the Gabriola woods right now, and they’ve got to be the prettiest groundcover ever. (I blogged about them last year when I learned their Latin name and realized what was cool about that.) Anyway. Here we have twinflowers growing on one of the old wrecks in the Gabriola forest. Flowers and [...]
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What do you suppose this is doing in the Gabriola woods? At first I thought it was the world’s biggest beer bottle, but no. It’s made of plastic, and the letters on the plastic say PERFEX. Is this another leftover from somebody’s forest grow-op?
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Well, it looks like a metal mushroom, don’t you think? It’s actually a rusty metal spool, which probably once had cable around it. It’s in the Gabriola woods, of course. Where else would a rusting old thing be?
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When I spot the remains of some old metal thing – a vehicle, an off-beat art project, a mystery – rusting away in the Gabriola woods, I’ll often leave the trail to go investigate. The wrecks usually aren’t on the main path – they’re likely to be ten or twenty paces into the woods, say, [...]
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I’ve found several more turquoise wrecks recently, but this is the first red one I’ve seen in ages. It’s nested in the salal in Gabriola’s 707 Acre Woods, just off the trail on the circle route. Have you spotted it on your way past?
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Last year I showed you a plastic bottle that appeared in a tree in the Gabriola woods. Since then, five or six more plastic jugs and a large bucket have appeared in the same cedar tree. It makes a good landmark, but it’s kind of odd to have a tree in festooned in plastic. One [...]
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For years I’ve been thinking of these piles of branches and stuff as debris, but now I’ve been living on the Isle of the Arts long enough to see the truth of it all. It’s art. Of course it is. Look at the symmetry, the composition! The angles! The use of colour! Regular readers will [...]
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So, old cars. There are a lot of them in the Gabriola forest, you know, rotting away. Mostly they’re in pieces, and being gradually covered in moss and salal. They’re usually a bit off the beaten path. Sometimes car parts become trail markers or salal decorations, like this tire rim.
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There are lots of pails in the Gabriola forest, probably dating from the time when the forest was logged. Since then the pails have started blending in, bit by bit: trees fell on them, moss grew over them, salal grew around them. Every once in a while some hiker spots a bit of plastic, drags [...]
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So, clothes dryers. Dump them in the forest seems to have been the favoured disposal method for old clothes dryers on Gabriola; I’ve found quite a few in the woods over the years. Recently I’ve been re-visiting the ones I know about, thinking that maybe I could find a good dryer drum for Michael Mehta, [...]
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