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 Overlapping - and, oh, so temporary Zebra Longwing / Heliconius charithonius Russian Thistle / Salsola kali Marbled Orbweaver / Araneus marmoreus A tight little community Stunning little beauty (Aculepeira) Is this a Shield Bug? Upright Prairie Coneflower / Ratibida columnifera… Alone Shrubby Cinquefoil Little blue spider Poppy red Bluer than the sky Bow Valley Provincial Park A mix of colours Heaven on earth Eyelash fungus Stink Bug Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica Slime mold The hiding game Spider's tunnel web This little light of mine ... Prostrate Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides Blue Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana Not just a pretty seedpod Slime mold Saddle fungus Bronzebells Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens Horseshoe Canyon Little beauty Dotted Blazingstar Not a fungus, or a bird, or a flower ... Blurry, but fascinating Ladybug on Goat's-beard Puffball Scarlet Butterfly Weed / Gaura coccinea Popp(y)ing off the page Different! A real stunner Barn Swallows Harebells Pretty near perfect Menzies' Catchfly Kiss me ... Climbing to Plateau Mountain Rocky Mountain Sandwort / Minuartia austromontana Perfection in small size Insect on tiny Moss Gentian Bird's-nest Fungi Subarctic Darner female and nymph casing Sticky fingers The metallic look In the spotlight Paintbrush The upward climb First Picklejar Lake Fungus rosette Young Red-winged Blackbird Parry's Townsendia / Townsendia parryi Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii Living in a tiny world 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 Strawberries and cream 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