Vancouver Island Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/vancouver-island/ Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:58:37 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 The rainforest, long may it last https://ounodesign.com/2015/12/29/temperate-rainforest-british-columbia/ https://ounodesign.com/2015/12/29/temperate-rainforest-british-columbia/#respond Tue, 29 Dec 2015 23:58:37 +0000 https://ounodesign.com/?p=18900

Trees on Boxing Day 2015, Vancouver Island. Our new summer droughts haven’t killed the rainforest yet! Happy New Year, everyone.

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My aunt just brought me a bottle of Left Coast Hemp Vodka which is produced here in British Columbia. There are several levels of excellent design and craft involved in it:  the vodka itself, the label, and also the distiller’s great logo, a stylized still.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2012/07/11/left-coast-hemp-vodka-by-victoria-spirits/feed/ 2 It’s spring and the skunk cabbage is out https://ounodesign.com/2012/03/22/spring-skunk-cabbage/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/03/22/spring-skunk-cabbage/#respond Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:19:24 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=13719

Happy Spring.

Skunk cabbages, Vancouver Island, a few days before the Spring Equinox.

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Recent radio silence has been the result of being either too busy in the city, or too unbusy and computerless while on various islands.

Today I learned that the term dog days is very old, a translation from the latin dies caniculares.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2011/08/31/dog-days-of-summer/feed/ 2 Rod Palm’s ship house on Strawberry Isle in Tofino, BC https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/25/rod-palm-ship-house-strawberry-isle-tofino-bc/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/25/rod-palm-ship-house-strawberry-isle-tofino-bc/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:49:51 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7013

Views of Rod’s famous ship house just off Tofino on the West Coat of Vancouver Island. Below, from here. And on Rod Palm and the Strawberry Isle Research Society here.

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This woodpecker is the Red-breasted Sapsucker, and it’s pecking on the house today. It’s not actually looking for bugs; it is tapping (very loudly) in order to find a mate.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/04/sapsucker-woodpecker-easter/feed/ 2 Flowers, slugs, dirt https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/03/spring-vancouver-island/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/03/spring-vancouver-island/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 07:22:29 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8873

Skunk cabbage, amanita, slug, trillium. Easter weekend on Southern Vancouver Island, before the high winds hit.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/03/spring-vancouver-island/feed/ 5 Local bank branch in 70s modern cedar https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/02/bank-branch-70s-modern-cedar/ https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/02/bank-branch-70s-modern-cedar/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:08:05 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=8875

Look, Vancouver, Victoria retained its cedar modernism. You could have, too.

Bank of Montreal branch in James Bay, Victoria, BC. Too bad about the sign.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2010/04/02/bank-branch-70s-modern-cedar/feed/ 2 The Cowichan sweater of Vancouver Island https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/21/the-cowichan-sweater-of-vancouver-island/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/12/21/the-cowichan-sweater-of-vancouver-island/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:12:36 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=7638 The late Amelia Charlie, prominent designer and promoter of the Cowichan sweater

Above is an example of the Cowichan sweater (photo courtesy Cowichan Tribes).

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Tatooine! I knew this Vancouver Island house reminded me of something.

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