At least someone likes Goat's-beard
A beautiful but invasive weed
Lovin' the light
Mission Mountain Range, Montana
Teasel
Teasel and bokeh
Nodding Thistle
Common Tansy in winter
Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
Bee on Baby's breath
Watch out for its stranglehold
Misleading beauty
Beauty and beast
European Mountain Ash
Canada/Creeping Thistle
Tartarian Honeysuckle
The inspiration for Velcro
Goat's-beard
Tall Hedge Mustard / Sisymbrium loeselii
The beauty of an invasive weed
Black Henbane seedpods
Caragana - invasive beauty
The dreaded Goat's-beard / Tragopogon dubius
Spotted Knapweed - PROHIBITED NOXIOUS
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
European Mountain Ash / Sorbus aucuparia
Mountain Ash berries
Teasels growing wild
Dame's rocket
Goat's-beard
Goat's-beard with visitor
Invasive Goat's-beard and Baby's breath
Meadow Goat's-beard / Tragopogon pratensis
Back-lit Goat's-beard
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Beauty of a weed
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Bird vetch / Vicia cracca
Goat's-beard
Snow-covered tresses
Skipper on Creeping Thistle
Beautiful but invasive Mountain Ash
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
Butter-and-eggs / Linaria vulgaris
Oxeye Daisy / Leucanthemum vulgare
Little dancers
Oxeye Daisy bokeh
Tall Buttercup
Amazing beauty
Oxeye Daisy / Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Two non-natives
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense
Common Burdock / Arctium minus
The kind of day it's been
Nodding Thistle/Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Ladybug on Goat's-beard
Horseshoe Canyon
Invasive beauty
Red rules
Invasive beauty
Creeping Bellflower
Damage done
Purple Loosestrife
Black Henbane seedpods
Yellow Clematis
Blowing in the wind
Life is not always a smooth ride
Pretty, but invasive
Goat's-beard
Beauty that causes devastation
Why is beauty not always good?
Come rain or shine
The dreaded Leafy Spurge
Leafy curls
Black Henbane seedpods
Goat's-beard
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The Nodding/Musk Thistle (Carduus nutans) is my favourite kind of thistle, especially at the stage before the stage shown in my photo, when the pinky purple flower has died and the beautiful pattern of the spiny bracts can be seen more clearly. Flower head is 4-6 cm in diameter. Photographed at the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area on July 27th, when I called in for a short walk after my afternoon volunteer shift. There were a lot more of these plants this year, so I guess this invasive weed really does spread!
The Government is offering very good rebates to people who replace their central heating furnace for an energy efficient one, but the offer is only for a limited time. My furnace is extremely old and I think it was maybe five years ago that the furnaces in several neighbours' units developed cracks and had to be replaced. We all had to have our furnaces checked for obvious safety reasons. I was told that mine might last another couple of years - and it has been five, so I feel I'm pushing my luck. The question is - do I really want to add more stress and mess to the upcoming stress and mess of having to have my front and patio doors, all my windows, and the roof replaced??? It would be so much more expensive to replace it next year. Also, it will be a nightmare getting to the furnace and working around it, as my basement is now worse than ever, now that I have the contents of the 12 boxes from England (containing so many wonderful sentimental belongings of my parents and my brother) strewn all over the basement floor. I think I might just have to swallow my pride and ask a furnace guy to please close his eyes and not notice the mess, ha. Impossible! Couldn't fall sleep last night, thinking about this, and ended up in my basement in the early hours of the morning, moving a handful of things. Anyone got one of those magic wands I could borrow, lol??? Or maybe even Mary Poppins might be available? Sigh ....
The Government is offering very good rebates to people who replace their central heating furnace for an energy efficient one, but the offer is only for a limited time. My furnace is extremely old and I think it was maybe five years ago that the furnaces in several neighbours' units developed cracks and had to be replaced. We all had to have our furnaces checked for obvious safety reasons. I was told that mine might last another couple of years - and it has been five, so I feel I'm pushing my luck. The question is - do I really want to add more stress and mess to the upcoming stress and mess of having to have my front and patio doors, all my windows, and the roof replaced??? It would be so much more expensive to replace it next year. Also, it will be a nightmare getting to the furnace and working around it, as my basement is now worse than ever, now that I have the contents of the 12 boxes from England (containing so many wonderful sentimental belongings of my parents and my brother) strewn all over the basement floor. I think I might just have to swallow my pride and ask a furnace guy to please close his eyes and not notice the mess, ha. Impossible! Couldn't fall sleep last night, thinking about this, and ended up in my basement in the early hours of the morning, moving a handful of things. Anyone got one of those magic wands I could borrow, lol??? Or maybe even Mary Poppins might be available? Sigh ....
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