Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: fan-shaped

Later: I had to dash out early this morning to meet with friends to spend the day at Bow Valley Provincial Park - roughly a 45-minute drive west from Calgary - and, because I overslept by an hour, I didn't have time to write all my descriptions before I left home. It was gloomy and raining, but we decided that we would still go. We found quite a few wildflowers - unfortunately, though, because everything was covered in millions of teeny raindrops, almost every one of my photos came out blurry, lol! I was also having a few problems with my camera, which does not feel good! Everywhere looked beautiful, clean and fresh and SO green from all the rain we've been having, but there was barely any sign of the surrounding mountains, which were covered in very low cloud and mist. Thanks so much for organizing this trip, Sandy, and thank you, Stephen, for driving us out there and back. So much appreciated! Found and photographed while a few of us spent the day botanizing Janel Butler's land on 23 July 2010. Thanks, Petaliaw, for the ID - Crepidotus sp.. Much appreciated!

This beautiful Crepidotus was growing on a broken-off branch that was lying on the ground when a few of us went to search for Lichens and Fungi yesterday, at West Bragg Creek. This is the gilled, underside, which I always love to see. By the way, Crepidotus means "cracked ear". I'm out for a long day of botanizing south west of the city today - in rain (like yesterday) all day, according to the forecast. We seem to be having June's weather in August - it really barely seems to have been any summer this year, though I'm certainly happy to have had cooler weather on many days. See you later. (Later: apologies - I replaced this photo after about nine hours, as so few people seemed to have seen it. Usually, I don't upload photos at some unearthly hour of the morning, well maybe around 7:30 a.m., so I suspect today's pics were somehow buried by all the photos people uploaded later during the day. I really do dislike replacing an image, as I know it pushes everyone else's photos one place further "down". Which is why it is really annoying when people do this every single day, sometimes as many as three times in one day! Very rough location marked on my map - really not quite sure where the right spot is. Not sure what's going on with my computer at the moment. The hard drive just constantly "runs" when I load MY Pictures, and this evening it was making copies of photos and adding them to a different folder in My Pictures. I was constantly trying to delete these unwanted copies, but it just kept copying more and more - hundreds of the wretched things! Thanks so much to the folks at the SuperEco group for posting this shot as an "Admin photo of the week", for the week ending August 14th, 2010. Much appreciated!