Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#345

A Sweetpea that was growing at the Reader Rock Garden about two weeks ago. Once again, I have been out botanizing all day today (alarm went off at 4:45 a.m.!!!) and only got home about 6:30 p.m. A handful of us recorded all the flora and fauna seen at a couple of other natural areas near Sundre, north west of Calgary. One location was the 90 acre Bearberry Prairie Natural Area located on the north side of the Red Deer River, and the other location, immediately adjacent to it on the east side, was the 159 acre Sundre Natural Area. The forecast was for rain (again!), but we were lucky enough to have it stay dry when we were got there and while we were doing our hike. Later: have had to spend the last three plus hours dealing with an attack on my computer. Took forever to do a full scan, for a start. I also got two "notices" from Windows Security (?) telling to click on a button to "start protection". Told me I had five viruses and listed them. However, I noticed two or three "suspicious" (?) things about them, including the fact that they had spelt "address" wrong (they used "adress") and the grammar wasn't perfect. After my Norton full-scan told me that someone had tried to attack my computer, it also said that this attack had been blocked and that no action was necessary. Seemed strange that I got THIS info and yet the two other notices told me to "click for protection". I'm wondering if they weren't fake (but fairly cleverly done) notices and were in fact part of the "attack". I just ignored them and did what Norton Internet Security told me, i.e. no action required. And now I'm totally stressed out - guess I need some supper as it's now 11:00 p.m.!! Sigh .... Sorry, just haven't had a chance to comment this evening! Oh, and the "funny" part is, I was Googling to see if I could find any good mushroom poems when the attack happened!!!

This gorgeous Mourning Cloak butterfly landed in the parking lot at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park yesterday. Gravel is never the ideal background, but I was just thankful that the butterfly landed at all, LOL!

I can't remember when I took this photo, but I used my old Olympus C750UZ and at that time I was having to hold the battery door closed with a huge elastic band. Each time this slipped, all my settings were messed up and no date was recorded. I know it was quite a long time ago, and I wasn't sure whether to post it as there is so little of the photo that is even moderately sharp, ha, ha. However, there is just something I like about the colouring and bokeh, and the small, delicate, hanging flowerhead. Purple Avens is a native plant in the Rose family and grows in marshes and wet meadows in July. Unusual pinkish purple, nodding heads. Sorry, everyone, I am falling further and further behind with any commenting (which is usually very random, anyway). This time of the year, after our long, cold winter months, I find myself out of the house most of the time, often seven days a week! Throw in severe sleep deprivation, and I tend to be feeling dead tired most of the time, too! Very enjoyable outings for me, (but absolutely necessary also, to keep my joints and muscles mobile, otherwise I won't be able to walk AT ALL), but I feel bad that I'm just not getting time to comment! I appreciate all YOUR comments so much - thank you so much for still taking the time to visit my photostream! So much appreciated!