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 Keep warm, everybody! Russula Crystal, designed by Mother Nature Crystal edging Red-breasted Nuthatch Sharp-tailed Grouse Northern Pygmy-owl Rest in peace, my brother, John One of a kind Two for the prICE of one Cosmos Great Orange Tip chrysalises / Hebomoia Glaucippe Merlin female / Falco columbarius Northern Pygmy-owl Summer colours Northern Pygmy-owl Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park Coils Frosted Winter magic Barrow's Goldeneye / Bucephala islandica Gulls, gulls and more gulls Peruvian Lily Blue-eyed grass seedpods A close up view African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata Aged beauty Tiny Lemon Drops Blue-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium montanum Cliff Swallow nests Long-eared Owl Light Northern Pygmy-owl Desire and passion Fall colours near the Bow River Huddled Barrier Lake Sitting pretty Sandhill Crane / Grus canadensis The power of bokeh Cladonia Lichen sp. Echinacea 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