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 ... : ) Bokeh shower Highbush Cranberry / Viburnum trilobum . I guess we do have SOME red : ) Reflection Earthstar Whooping Crane / Grus americana Lachnum sp. Hooker's Thistle / Cirsium hookerianum When the weight of the world ... A little find in the forest Nodding Thistle/Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans Reaching out to the sun Soft-leaf Muhly grass / Muhlenbergia richardsonis Stunning little beauty (Aculepeira) A tight little community Marbled Orbweaver / Araneus marmoreus Russian Thistle / Salsola kali Zebra Longwing / Heliconius charithonius Overlapping - and, oh, so temporary Rust on a leaf Stiff Yellow Paintbrush / Castilleja lutescens Russula White Water Crowfoot / Ranunculus aquatilis Shaggy Mane / Coprinus comatus Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina Warbling Vireo 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