Alkali Cordgrass / Spartina gracilis
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Puffballs
Yellow Mountain Saxifrage / Saxifraga aizoides
An unusual find
Always a delight
Clavariadelphus
Indian Paintbrush
Thesium / Thesium arvense
Tufted White Prairie Aster / Symphyotrichum ericoi…
Forest floor
Contrasts
Black footed polypore
Bunchberry berries - fall is on its way
Sacred Lotus / Nelumbo nucifera
Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
Polypore
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Beetle
One of my favourite fungi : )
Very large Artist's Conk / Ganoderma applanatum
Two of a kind
Bird's-foot Trefoil / Lotus corniculatus
Juvenile Swainson's Hawks
Little dancers
Just for the record
Alpine Bistort / Polygonum viviparum
Mayfly on Echinacea
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk / Accipiter cooperii
Kananaskis Lakes
My little angel
Slime mold on moss
Underside of Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus
Lovely while it lasted
Orange Hawkweed / Hieracium aurantiacum
Ruddy Duck / Oxyura jamaicensis
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Arctic Willow
Golden Dung Fly / Scathophaga stercoraria
Early Blue Violet / Viola adunca
Creepy crawlies - Willow Leaf Aphids?
My first truly wild Skunk
After a long, long wait
Insect galls on a Willow leaf
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Beauty in the forest


I did darken this photo so that the web stood out more than in the original photo : ) Thanks so much, Aileen, for pointing out this beautiful spider's web yesterday, when we were botanizing the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. I was concentrating on the backlit web, so didn't think of walking around to the other side so that I could get a photo of the topside of the spider.
Today, I HAVE to make myself get a few things done in the house, ready for when my 12 boxes of sentimental items that belonged to my brother and my parents (and me) arrive from England. They are supposed to be in Calgary by the end of August, so I've almost run out of time to do more clearing of my basement to make room, and I absolutely have to do some very, very, very long-overdue cleaning this week before I dare let anyone into my place, lol. Every time I am out botanizing some location in or around the city, I can't help but think how sad it is that so many women are at home, vacuuming and keeping their homes spotless. My theory on that is that life is so short and there is so much amazing beauty out there for us to enjoy, why stay home and miss it all? I know which I would rather do, any day - which is why I have no choice but to plug in my poor, extremely neglected vacuum cleaner this week before the moving/delivery people arrive, ha. I hate the thought of having to disturb all the little dust bunnies - you know me, I love little creatures, whether wild or domesticated. Under the bed seems to be a common location to find dust bunnies, but mine are so clever, they climb on everything and try to hide there, ha.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web
Today, I HAVE to make myself get a few things done in the house, ready for when my 12 boxes of sentimental items that belonged to my brother and my parents (and me) arrive from England. They are supposed to be in Calgary by the end of August, so I've almost run out of time to do more clearing of my basement to make room, and I absolutely have to do some very, very, very long-overdue cleaning this week before I dare let anyone into my place, lol. Every time I am out botanizing some location in or around the city, I can't help but think how sad it is that so many women are at home, vacuuming and keeping their homes spotless. My theory on that is that life is so short and there is so much amazing beauty out there for us to enjoy, why stay home and miss it all? I know which I would rather do, any day - which is why I have no choice but to plug in my poor, extremely neglected vacuum cleaner this week before the moving/delivery people arrive, ha. I hate the thought of having to disturb all the little dust bunnies - you know me, I love little creatures, whether wild or domesticated. Under the bed seems to be a common location to find dust bunnies, but mine are so clever, they climb on everything and try to hide there, ha.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web
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