2019

Bluemink 紫花藿香薊 (zǐ huā huò xiāng jì) Ageratum houstonianum
Chinese box turtle, Yellow-margined box turtle 食蛇龜 (shì shé guī "snake-eating turtle") Cuora flavomarginata (Rare and valuable species)
Fish mint 魚腥草 (yú xīng cǎo) Houttuynia cordata
Common melastoma 野牡丹 (yě mǔ dān) Melastoma malabathricum
wild gac vine 槭葉括樓 (cū yè kuò lóu) Trichosanthes laceribracteata
low growing fern in damp, low-light forest
Wild tung tree flower


Broad-leaf fern 雙扇蕨 (shuāng shàn jué) (also 鐵雨傘, 半把蕨, 破傘蕨) Dipteris conjugata







Formosan jewelwing 白痣珈蟌 (bái zhì jiā cōng) Matrona cyanoptera, male?



end of Guishan Rd 桂山路
Guishan 桂山 below from Sikanshui 四崁水
Used car
waterfall on a side stream
FeiTsui Reservoir 翡翠水庫 through the trees
illegally parked truck
layers of sediment

a storm run
Weiwei at the FeiTsui Reservoir 翡翠水庫
finger of FeiTsui Reservoir 翡翠水庫
hiking down the stream
stream leading down into the FeiTsui Reservoir 翡翠水庫
walk in Sikanshui 四崁水
goofy in Sikanshui 四崁水
walk in Sikanshui 四崁水
two Chinese classmates

2018

Sikanshui 四崁水 4.9 km hike
Sikanshui 四崁水 4.9 km hike






Mounts attached to the tree for?



tired on the edge




fruiting Jerusalem cherry 玉珊瑚 (yù shān hú) Solanum pseudocapsicum

Kanie and Weiwei getting in touch with their wild roots
Tammy with bag of collected trash from along the trail
Formosan condor vine 台灣牛彌菜 (táiwān niú mí cài) Marsdenia formosana Masam.
Formosan condor vine 台灣牛彌菜 (táiwān niú mí cài) Marsdenia formosana Masam.







tree ferns on the mend
Unidentified wild berry plant
Taiwan Raspberry 刺莓 Rubus rosaefolius Smith
Urtica family
Small ephemeral stream bed
Smaller temple down river facing larger temple
Cardboard mulch