Happy Winter, everyone! Enjoy your Christmas Day : ) Two for the prICE of one Spurred Gentian Happy New Year, everyone! Sharp-tailed Grouse hibiscus detail Turtlehead / Chelone Rest in Peace, Elizabeth Taylor White Pelican and Catfish White Pelican First Encounter Tiny Pygmy-flower Two-spotted Ladybug Alpine Arnica Barred Owl Ladybug pupa The tiniest mushrooms I ever saw : ) Lake Daylesford 2 Ruffled Treasures on a lily pad Dropping in to say Hello Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep… Little glimmer of light The jaws of death Coconut Lime Sneezeweed / Helenium Snow-covered tresses One brief moment Beautiful Cosmos Flaming rays Window bokeh Malachite magnificence Rock Dove, alias Pigeon Northern Pygmy-owl For Joan, Suzanne, Margit and Sheila Keep warm, little lady Julia / Dryas julia Northern Pygmy-owl / Glaucidium gnoma Horsetails Desire and passion Blue-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium montanum Autumn gold and diamonds_2 Barrier Lake Tiny world on a leaf Upright Prairie Coneflower / Ratibida columnifera… Northern Gentian Orange False-dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca Leopard Lacewing Kiss me ... A real stunner Eastern Kingbird Horsetail/Equisetum Blue-eyed Grass A touch of sunlight Emerging Ram's Horn Snail shell Blue Clematis Eastern Kingbird . Mountain Bluebird Tree Swallow Atlas Moth, Attacus atlas Mountain Bluebird Blue Wave, Myscelia cyaniris Purple elegance