A handsome baby boy
Tiny trio
Don't play with your food
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Tiny perfection - Lichenomphalia
Endangered Northern Leopard Frog
Porcupine
Egyptian Star Cluster
Northern Pygmy-owl
Mating butterflies
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Leafy spiral
Grey Crowned Crane / Balearica regulorum
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Our spring landscape
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Woodland Caribou
Please release me .. let me go
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Mold
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Entrance to Tut-Ankh-Amon's tomb, 1967
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Unidentified mushroom
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For those living in a world of white
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One of many
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Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense


So beautiful, yet so devastating! This is one of our main invasive weeds, also called Canada Thistle, and it has taken over so many parts of our lovely natural areas. This species is native throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere (including here, unfortunately). The name "Canada Thistle, is misleading, as the plant is not native to this country. Creeping Thistle is the preferred name - and WE don't want to be blamed for something so destructive, when we didn't start the whole thing, lol!! Each spring, it forms extensive clonal colonies from an underground root system that sends up numerous erect stems. Photographed (macro) this particular plant at Clearwater Park, on the west side of the city, off Highway 8, September 4th last year.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_arvense
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirsium_arvense
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