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 A sprinkling of snow sparkles The kind of day it's been Pretty while it lasted Vancouver Island Marmot / Marmota vancouverensis Milbert's Tortoise Shell / Aglais milberti Life on a leaf stalk Banded Orange / Dryadula phaetusa Glorious autumn colour Yellow Columbine / Aquilegia flavescens Rainbow of a smaller kind Remembering Canola A lucky shot Cladonia sp. Master of stealth Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Standing tall Amur Maple I'm hungry and waiting ... Illumination Fire and ice I'm a Boreal Chickadee, not a Black-capped Chickad… Little moth of the forest When the petals have fallen : ) Intense Northern Pygmy-owl / Glaucidium gnoma Bursting Loving the light Winter magic Mini-icicle A metallic look Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita Tropical leaves Tarnished Plant Bug / Lygus lineolaris Life on a leaf stalk Whooping Crane / Grus americana A different Coral Fungus White Columbine Scentless Chamomile / Matricaria perforata And away they go ... Beauty Bird's-nest Fungi by the hundreds Silver threads Lacewing / Chrysopidae sp. How's this for colour? The twist Soft-leaf Muhly grass / Muhlenbergia richardsonis Reaching out to the sun Nodding Thistle/Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans A little find in the forest When the weight of the world ... Hooker's Thistle / Cirsium hookerianum Lachnum sp. Whooping Crane / Grus americana Earthstar Reflection I guess we do have SOME red : ) . Highbush Cranberry / Viburnum trilobum Bokeh shower : ) 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