Rosy Pussytoes/Antennaria rosea
Small-flowered Sand-Verbena
Red Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata
Such a cutie
Western Toad
Split gill
Bleeding Heart
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Lacewing
Iris
Tree Swallow nest
Northern Bedstraw
Horsetail/Equisetum
Fireweed
Eastern Kingbird
Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower
Heart-leaved Arnica/Arnica cordifolia
Maybe an Edith's Checkerspot
In the light
Hey, Mom - it was MY turn!
Hidden treasures
The work of ants
Boreal Chorus Frog
Southern Red-backed Vole
Blue-eyed Grass
Greater Scaup - or Lesser?
Tiny treasures
With a sprinkling of bokeh
Atlas Moth
Northern Green Bog Orchid?
A tribute to Phoenix
(Con)temporary
Yellow Mountain-avens
Sawfly larva
The power of red
Into the big, wide world
Mystery Paintbrush
Happy Stampeding!
And then there was ONE
Dandelion bokeh
A touch of sunlight
Mountain Bluebird nest - oops, Tree Swallow nest!
Motherly love
Glorious colour
Wild Lily-of-the-valley
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Two days ago, a handful of us went north west of Calgary to a natural area, Sundre Natural Area, to record all plants, birds and wildlife seen during the day there. These small mushrooms are hardly spectacularly photogenic - but, hey, they ARE mushrooms! It seems that we might come across one fungus on a day's outing at the moment. Really, really hoping that this will improve in the next few weeks! These were such a beautiful colour and shiny, and definitely better than seeing nothing.
Thank goodness I didn't sleep right through an hour of blaring, alarm clock music this morning, which is what I did yesterday morning (plus another hour and a half) and consequently missed a day trip with a few friends to Bow Valley Provincial Park. The University of Calgary held their Open House at their Field Station in Kananaskis today - near Barrier Lake. Four of us went to the mountains for this and enjoyed going on a botanizing walk first on our own. Then two of us went on a Butterfly walk with a young, very knowledgeable guy named Steve, who is at the Station for part of the year. We saw several different butterflies and two or three other insects - and we made it rain, LOL! The wildflowers are just so spectacular at the moment - a joy to see so many bright orange Western Wood Lilies. Absolute food for the soul!
Thank goodness I didn't sleep right through an hour of blaring, alarm clock music this morning, which is what I did yesterday morning (plus another hour and a half) and consequently missed a day trip with a few friends to Bow Valley Provincial Park. The University of Calgary held their Open House at their Field Station in Kananaskis today - near Barrier Lake. Four of us went to the mountains for this and enjoyed going on a botanizing walk first on our own. Then two of us went on a Butterfly walk with a young, very knowledgeable guy named Steve, who is at the Station for part of the year. We saw several different butterflies and two or three other insects - and we made it rain, LOL! The wildflowers are just so spectacular at the moment - a joy to see so many bright orange Western Wood Lilies. Absolute food for the soul!
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