Autumn Crocuses Nodding Onion with a visitor Hooded Merganser / Lophodytes cucullatus Rest in Peace, Elizabeth Taylor Survival of the fittest Mountain Bluebird Weird and wonderful Small/Northern Grass-of-Parnassus / Parnassia parv… Wolf Milk's Slime Northern Pygmy-owl Golden Sedge / Carex aurea Downy Woodpecker Textured Large Indian Breadroot / Pediomelum esculentum Black-capped Chickadee Lily American Three-toed Woodpecker Edged in pink Earthstar Winter is still hanging around A taste of what's to come Catching the light Spring ... you call this spring?! Northern Flicker Visited by an invisible spider Just around the corner ... spring? Lunch time So, where IS spring? Black-capped Chickadee / Poecile atricapillus The melt Puffballs Softness Downy Woodpecker Youth and old age Just having fun Hooded Merganser / Lophodytes cucullatus Clash of colours American Three-toed Woodpecker A tip o' the hat - Happy St. Patrick's Day! Transformation : ) Backlit Lily Living on a log Last summer Pileated Woodpecker In the forest