Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Achillea millefolium

This photo was taken on Judy Osborne's property on 25 August 2015, According to Wikipedia, other common names for this species include gordaldo, nosebleed plant, old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, thousand-leaf, and thousand-seal." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achillea_millefolium Six days ago, on 25 August, 10 of us arrived at a friend's house, ready to go north of Calgary to near Sundre, for a few hours of botanizing, This was the second visit to Judy Osborne's for a few of us, me included. The previous trip was on 30 June 2015. By now, of course, a lot of the wildflowers are finished, but I found enough other things to photograph, including a distant, beautiful Red-tailed Hawk, a Wood Frog, a Yellowjacket (wasp), and a mushroom or two, plus a few of the plants in our friends' garden at the beginning and end of the day. Their garden is one beautiful sea of yellow at the moment. No scenery shots during the day, as the visibility was so bad, due to the smoke coming from serious, widespread forest fires in the northwest United States. Thanks so much, Judy, for having us out on your beautiful property again. It was a most enjoyable day, despite the dreadful, smoke-filled air. We look forward to being out there again next year! Many thanks, too, to Barry, who drove a few of us out there and back to Calgary. A long, long drive and it was much appreciated!

I rather liked this fence that we saw by the Community Centre at Elbow Valley Estates (off Highway 8), when we spent a few hours botanizing the surrounding forest on 10 August 2012. The flowers are pink and white Yarrow.

Apparently, this is called a Green Soldier Fly (Odontomyia cincta), and I don't remember ever seeing one before. I had no idea what I was photographing at the time - to me it looked more like a beetle except that it had wings. It's quite a beautiful insect, I think. Telemacro photo taken on 21 July 2012, NW of the city. I was feeling a little disappointed that I had found no owls (after being so spoilt the last few months!), so I pulled off the road on my way home to see what wildflowers might be growing. I only took a few steps before finding this insect on a Yarrow plant and another one that I don't yet have an ID for. "“Adults take nectar, also sometimes found on dung” and “Eggs are laid on the edge of body of water. Larvae are aquatic, feed on algae. They stick tip of abdomen up through water surface to obtain air.“ From BugGuide.

Every once in a while, we come across a pale pink Yarrow on one of our walks - instead of the more usual white form. Photographed this one at Shannon Terrace, Fish Creek Park, on July 4th.