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 The twist How's this for colour? Lacewing / Chrysopidae sp. Silver threads Bird's-nest Fungi by the hundreds Beauty And away they go ... Scentless Chamomile / Matricaria perforata White Columbine A different Coral Fungus Whooping Crane / Grus americana Life on a leaf stalk Tarnished Plant Bug / Lygus lineolaris Tropical leaves Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita A metallic look Echinacea Cladonia Lichen sp. The power of bokeh Sandhill Crane / Grus canadensis Sitting pretty Barrier Lake Huddled Fall colours near the Bow River Desire and passion Northern Pygmy-owl Light Long-eared Owl Little beauty Horseshoe Canyon Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens Bronzebells Saddle fungus Slime mold Not just a pretty seedpod Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana Blue Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides Prostrate Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare This little light of mine ... Spider's tunnel web The hiding game Slime mold Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica Stink Bug Eyelash fungus Heaven on earth A mix of colours Bow Valley Provincial Park Bluer than the sky Poppy red Little blue spider Shrubby Cinquefoil Alone Upright Prairie Coneflower / Ratibida columnifera… Is this a Shield Bug? 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