A man who attempted to date rape me, when I was a young adult, has never been fully cleared in the #LindsayBuziak #ColdCase #murder case in #VictoriaBC. I grew up with Vid(that's what we called him back then). He hated me because I always stood up against abuses against women & saved 2 of his ex gfs from brutal beatings by him. I was targeted for rape because of my strong stances & didn't know until I had to fight off Vid from trying to rape me. Last year, he found me online & threatened to kill me for trying to ruin his life. I alerted my brothers & close friends about that threat. I used to tell people that if anything happens to me, Ovidio is responsible. He is the only local person I knew of who would actually try to carry out violent threats towards me.

He is dead now so I can now feel safer.

Previous blogs about Ovidio:

https://murderondesousa.com/2020/01/05/murder-on-desousa/

https://murderondesousa.com/crime-pays/

I always bring receipts.

Dead #trees are not wasted timber dollars - they are sources of food for literally thousands of beings in a #forest #ecosystem, from tiny microscopic beings to insectivorous birds. Standing dead trees are known as snags, while a fallen dead trees are nurse logs. A cut or natural stump can serve the same #ecological function as a #NurseStump.

Nature wastes nothing. If there is a nutrient source to be had, there is a being to benefit from it. Nurse logs, standing snags & nurse stumps play hosts to all sorts of mosses, lichens, fungi, insects & arthropods, many hidden deep inside, as well as other living beings that prey on them.

Nurse #stumps are still deeply rooted; new plant, tree & fungi life grows out of their tops. Nurse stumps & dead stumps that have no new growth atop are like anchor systems for living trees growing in forests. You destabilize the ecosystem when you remove them from their natural #environment.

#NaturalistNotes #Educational #VancouverIsland #nature #wilderness #GetOutside #photography #PacificNorthwest #PNW #Cascadia #VanIsle #mosstodon #Wsanec #CommunityForest #ForestStewardship #ForestProtection #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #YYJ #ProtectTrees #SaveForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #BCForestryReform #Degrowth

Marlo sleeps after an exhausting day of light snoozing. Some sort of exercise show on tv is being ignored.

#felinefriday #cat #photography #victoriabc

When we were house shopping in #VictoriaBC we encountered a couple of these. @chris