Mossleigh grain elevators
Slime mold
Northern Gentian
Happiness is .....
Strange, tall-stalked fungus
Memorial Rose for Carl Handfield
Reaching those faraway feathers
Homestead remnants
Large, fat-stalked mushroom
Loved by Monarch butterflies
Now they can't see me
Fly Agaric / Amanita muscaria
Nest-building Dad
Osprey take-off
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
Mt Lorette Ponds, Kananaskis
Wind-blown Osprey
Unidentified fungus
Yellow Owl's-clover / Orthocarpus luteus
Treasures of the forest floor
Gaillardia with little visitor
Poisonous Brown-Eyed Parasol / Lepiota helveola
Scabious growing in the wild
Red-belted Polypore with guttation droplets
Two of a kind
Splash of colour on a rainy day
Fading into the distance
Eyelash fungi
Eastern Kingbird
The 'Sickener' / Russula emetica
Alsike Clover / Trifolium hybridum
Storm clouds over Canola
Eye-catching fungus
White Prairie Clover / Dalea candida
A favourite bird to photograph
Growing on a log
A well-decorated fence
Osprey family in the city
Mature age in the world of fungi
White Evening Primrose / Oenothera caespitosa
Shakin' all over
Little red cabin
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
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Goat's-beard


This is the dreaded Goat's-beard, a highly invasive, non-native plant that has spread (and keeps spreading, despite attempts to control it) in our natural areas in the city and beyond. Too bad, because both the beautiful flower and huge Dandelion-like seedhead are most attractive.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_dubius
On 26 June 2016, a fair-sized group of people spent the morning on a walk led by Erik Butters, out past Cochrane, NW of Calgary. This land consists of rolling, open hills and areas of woodland, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. This event was the 8th Annual Flora & Fauna Fundraising for Ghost River Watershed Outing.
Fortunately, I knew how to drive to this distant location, so I was able to pick up friend Dorothy and off we went together. We allowed plenty of time to get there, just in case of heavy traffic or else we saw something interesting en route. This meant that there was time for me to stop and take a few photos of a Llama in someone's field, a couple of beautiful Longhorn cattle lying down and a small herd of maybe half a dozen Elk that we saw way off in the distance.
I think everyone was more than ready for lunch by the time our hike was over! Going to our destination was all uphill, which I normally avoid at all cost. Coming down used less energy, but painful knees felt every step on the way down : )
Around 1:00 pm, Erik and his partner provided a great BBQ for those of us from Calgary and for the people who had joined us from elsewhere. As always, the food was delicious! Thank you so much, both of you! Amazingly, the sun shone and there was no rain, despite the weather forecast.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragopogon_dubius
On 26 June 2016, a fair-sized group of people spent the morning on a walk led by Erik Butters, out past Cochrane, NW of Calgary. This land consists of rolling, open hills and areas of woodland, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. This event was the 8th Annual Flora & Fauna Fundraising for Ghost River Watershed Outing.
Fortunately, I knew how to drive to this distant location, so I was able to pick up friend Dorothy and off we went together. We allowed plenty of time to get there, just in case of heavy traffic or else we saw something interesting en route. This meant that there was time for me to stop and take a few photos of a Llama in someone's field, a couple of beautiful Longhorn cattle lying down and a small herd of maybe half a dozen Elk that we saw way off in the distance.
I think everyone was more than ready for lunch by the time our hike was over! Going to our destination was all uphill, which I normally avoid at all cost. Coming down used less energy, but painful knees felt every step on the way down : )
Around 1:00 pm, Erik and his partner provided a great BBQ for those of us from Calgary and for the people who had joined us from elsewhere. As always, the food was delicious! Thank you so much, both of you! Amazingly, the sun shone and there was no rain, despite the weather forecast.
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