Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii Parry's Townsendia / Townsendia parryi Young Red-winged Blackbird Fungus rosette First Picklejar Lake The upward climb In the spotlight The metallic look Sticky fingers Subarctic Darner female and nymph casing Bird's-nest Fungi Insect on tiny Moss Gentian Perfection in small size Rocky Mountain Sandwort / Minuartia austromontana Climbing to Plateau Mountain Kiss me ... Menzies' Catchfly Pretty near perfect Harebells Barn Swallows A real stunner Different! Popp(y)ing off the page The work of ants In the light Heart-leaved Arnica/Arnica cordifolia Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower Eastern Kingbird Fireweed Northern Bedstraw Horsetail/Equisetum Tree Swallow nest Lacewing Iris Split gill Barrier Lake, Kananaskis Bleeding Heart Such a cutie Western Toad Red Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata Southern Red-backed Vole Small-flowered Sand-Verbena Rosy Pussytoes/Antennaria rosea There's hope yet Greater Scaup - or Lesser? Blue-eyed Grass Mushroom magic Against the light Yellow Sweetclover / Melilotus officinalis Fireweed / Epilobium angustifolium Insect casing Invasive beauty Earthstar / Geastrum sp. Tiny world on a leaf Black Currant Pie, anyone? Tartarian Honeysuckle /Lonicera tatarica Hopper on Broadleaf Gumweed / Grindelia squarrosa One of my favourite flowers Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi… Warbling Vireo Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale A dose of yellow Dew on Sundew One-sided Wintergreen Leopard Lacewing Coral fungus Fringed Gentian / Gentiana procera Wood Frog Crepidotus Moss Campion Sticky False Asphodel seedpods / Tofieldia glutino… Bog Candle The same but different Eyelash fungus / Scutellinia scutellata Hanging on to youth Deep in the forest Boreal Chorus Frog Crested Beardtongue . Mushroom in the ditch Blue-eyed Grass House Sparrow fledgeling Tree Brain and Jelly Hoary Cress Colorado Rubber Plant Swallowtail Unfurling Eastern Kingbird Mom Early arrivals Approach me if you dare Blue Clematis Bear claw marks Let the light shine through Bird on a wire Windflower/Cut-leaved Anemone Pink and pretty Plains Garter Snake Sand Dock (Rumex venosus) White Beardtongue Bee Spiderflower, Cleome serrulata Textured cap Mr. and Mrs. Clustered Broomrape, Orobanche fasciculata . Angel tears Wild Chives Le Conte's Sparrow Tiger Beetle Emerging Height of fashion Drummond's Thistle Barred Owl American White Pelican Little Mulie Lily 3 out of 15 Gaillardia Red Clover Tiny Moth Corallorhiza striata var. vreelandii A fine ambassador Red Admiral