Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Handfield acreage

One of the welcome fungi that we saw three days ago, when we went to botanize someone's property south of the city, near Millarville. We have waited so many months for the first sight of fungi growing, and we were lucky to find several that day.

These common wildflowers, Tall Lungwort/Languid Ladies/Bluebell - and Dangling Damsels, according to one of my friends! - seem to grow everywhere, and I occasionally stop to shoot a little hanging cluster of the blue flowers and pink buds. This time, however, I was lucky enough to spot a Ladybug (pardon the pun, LOL)! Seen on someone's property near Millarville, south west of Calgary, when we went to botanize the area.

It's rather difficult to make a photogenic photo of these small, rare, red stems, but I did want a record of what a whole plant looks like, especially after posting the extremely enlarged photo below a few days ago. A friend came across a little cluster of these small, brilliant red stems on a walk in the forest. We weren't sure what they were at first, but then we came across another cluster that had several teeny flowers open. What a thrill to realize that these tiny, wild Orchids were the Spotted Coralroot. Thanks for finding these, David! The stems above were maybe 4"-6" tall, so perhaps you can imagine how tiny an individual flower is. Seen on someone's acreage west of Millarville (south of Calgary) the other day.

An absolutely useless photo as far as being to identify these mushrooms is concerned, but I just liked the sheen and sparkle of the two caps against the dark. Seen in the forest on someone's acreage, south of the city and near Millarville.

This is one of several fungi that we came across while botanizing someone's acreage last week, south of the city and west of Millarville. It's either a short Spruce (?) needle or similar that was balancing on top of the cap. We are still getting hardly any rain - we need it desperately!