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 Cliff Swallow nests Blue-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium montanum Tiny Lemon Drops Aged beauty African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata A close up view Blue-eyed grass seedpods Peruvian Lily Gulls, gulls and more gulls Two of the same Sowthistle buds Frills and gills A healthy meal of greens It's all about the bug Lighting up the darkness Looking good for its age The pumpkin month American Crow Hanging Nodding Thistle / Carduus nutans Disappearing world Boreal Chickadee : ) Round and round ... Dainty bells The queen of fall colour Cladonia Lichen Long time no see Out of the darkness - for the Chilean miners and t… It's all about RED White Angelica Spores on moss capsules The Sickener / Russula emetica Black Cup Fungus / Plectania melastoma Bokeh paradise Spectacular Northern Gentian Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda Scarlet Butterfly Weed / Gaura coccinea Puffball Ladybug on Goat's-beard Blurry, but fascinating Not a fungus, or a bird, or a flower ... Dotted Blazingstar 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