Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale Shaggy Mane / Coprinus comatus White Water Crowfoot / Ranunculus aquatilis Russula Stiff Yellow Paintbrush / Castilleja lutescens Rust on a leaf 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 Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda Northern Gentian Spectacular Bokeh paradise Black Cup Fungus / Plectania melastoma The Sickener / Russula emetica Spores on moss capsules White Angelica It's all about RED Out of the darkness - for the Chilean miners and t… Long time no see Cladonia Lichen The queen of fall colour Dainty bells Round and round ... Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi… One of my favourite flowers Hopper on Broadleaf Gumweed / Grindelia squarrosa Tartarian Honeysuckle /Lonicera tatarica Black Currant Pie, anyone? Tiny world on a leaf Earthstar / Geastrum sp. Invasive beauty Insect casing Fireweed / Epilobium angustifolium Yellow Sweetclover / Melilotus officinalis Against the light Mushroom magic Blue-eyed Grass Greater Scaup - or Lesser? There's hope yet Rosy Pussytoes/Antennaria rosea Small-flowered Sand-Verbena Southern Red-backed Vole Red Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata Western Toad Such a cutie Bleeding Heart Barrier Lake, Kananaskis Split gill Iris Lacewing Tree Swallow nest Horsetail/Equisetum Northern Bedstraw Fireweed Eastern Kingbird Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower Heart-leaved Arnica/Arnica cordifolia In the light The work of ants 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 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