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Amerorchis/Orchis rotundifolia
Round-leaved Orchis
off Elbow Falls Trail
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Maclean Pond
W of Calgary
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Little angels in pink, polka dot nightgowns

Little angels in pink, polka dot nightgowns
HAPPY 4th JULY to all Americans, wherever you happen to be living at the moment! A special thought to all those men and women who serve their country, either at home or overseas, and those who make sacrifices every day so that the rest of Americans can live in freedom. We, in Canada, celebrated Canada Day on 1 July.

The day before yesterday, 2 July 2013, our temperatures reached 100F. No air-conditioning at home, so I drove my car out to Maclean Pond, which was as far as the Elbow Falls Trail is open now, due to all the damage caused by the Flood of the Century that started about two weeks ago. I believe that Calgary's State of Emergency is being lifted today. Photographed this tiny Round-leaved Orchid in the forest near the pond. After Maclean Pond, I drove around the backroads SW of Calgary, further avoiding going back to my home that was like an oven.

"This is the only Alberta orchid that has white or mauve flowers with the lip heavily spotted with purple. The flower stem, which is more properly called a scape because it bears no leaves along its length, grows 10-25 cm high from fibrous roots and a slender rhizome. At its base is a solitary rounded leaf, 3-10 cm long. At the top it carries a raceme (stalked spike) of 2-several showy flowers, each about 1 cm long."

www.anpc.ab.ca/assets/Orchid.pdf

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 LeapFrog
LeapFrog
Beautiful patterns on these wild Orchids Anne ... great patterns and colours ... nicely stacked here on top of each other ... and well taken macro and very well presented ...

PS: I am afraid there will come a time when you will require A/C ... with the ice gone, I do not think it will get cooler in the long run ...
11 years ago.
Anne Elliott club has replied to LeapFrog
Thanks so much, Art! At my age, things in the future don't worry me too much (as far as myself is concerned, but not for my kids, of course). I won't be around to see what's going on.
11 years ago.
LeapFrog has replied to Anne Elliott club
Exactly ... I thought I would not be around to see the Athabasca Icefield melting so much ... nor the amount of the Arctic Ice that is now gone ... I personally cannot do much about this and I hope I am long gone before I see temps like +50C here ... the only thing I can do is to assist the wildlife that is around me for as long as I can ... and that is what I can do.

Sincerely Art

PS: My nieces understand what is happening ... but have little time to do much about it ... our children and their children will inherit a mess.
11 years ago.

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