Embracing the sun
Dianthus sp.
Sweet little garden ornament
Delicate colours of summer
Poppy art
Springtime colour
Another day closer
Just a splash of colour
Datura flower?
A little corner of Reader Rock Garden
Siberian Squill
From days gone by
Popular with the Aphids
Floral beauty
Pink Sundae / Salvia viridis
Beauty lasts
Spider on Strawflower
Giant Scabius with purple bokeh
Hepatica
Hanging on to the old
Home tweet home
Siberian Squill
Delicate Iris
Pink Hellebore
Candy-striped Tulip
Physoclaina orientalis
Physoclaina orientalis
Hoverfly on European Pasque Flower
Art of nature
Beauty of spring
Elephant Ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Hellebore beauty
One of my favourite spring garden flowers
After the rain
Hepatica
Snake's Head Fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Colour
Periwinkle / Vinca minor
The joy of spring
Much-needed colour
Red Baneberry
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Is this a Pink?
Flowers of spring
The purity of white
A colourful little corner
Bee nesting box
Farm seed elevator, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Hollyhock buds
Needed a change of colour
Red-edged petals
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Iris at Olds College Botanical Gardens and Wetland…
Yesterday's summer hail
Egyptian Walking Onion
Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
Bold and beautiful
They can't see me
Old cabin on Gottlob Schmidt's (Schmitty's) land
Splash of colour on a rainy day
Memorial Rose for Carl Handfield
Loved by Monarch butterflies
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Vibrant
Busy little bee
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Remembering the warmth of summer
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Get well, Rachel
The donkeys with reflector eyes
Another day closer to spring
Ice is nice
Long-billed ice bird
Lily macro
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Summer Iris display
Christmas colours in July
Cornflower
Elegant beauty
Face to the sun
Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae
Sparkling in the sunlight
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Time to reveal
Someone just couldn't resist : )
Grain elevator with a difference
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Golden
Beetle necklace
Vibrant colour to warm us all up
The beauty of old age
Colour to warm the heart and soul
Mullein / Verbascum thapsus
Painted Daisy / Chrysanthemum coccineum
Gas Plant / Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus'
Moving into fall
Overflowing with colour
Lest we forget
Deep pink Peony
Complete with tiny rooster weather vane
It tickles!
Elegance
One of my favourite flowers to photograph
Poppy seedpod
Moss-rose, Happy Hour Mix / Portulaca grandiflora
Ready to unfurl
A gorgeous splash of colour
Surrounded by beauty
Overtaken by nature
Sunflowers and a red barn
All decked out
Bursts of colour
An ornamental grass
Cheery bokeh - Salvia sp.?
A splash of red
Petunias
Sunflower beauty
Reaching for the sun
A maze of golden Sunflowers
Zonal Geranium, Survivor Pink Batik
Cosmos
Beauty - flower and bokeh
Ruby-throated Hummingbird / Archilochus colubris
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Beware those icy fingers
Just a few icicles hanging from a small tree at the Saskatoon Farm.
On 21 December 2015, my daughter and I had our Christmas get-together. Like last year, she asked if I wanted to spend the day out of the city, looking for Snowy Owls (and other things). We were both so happy to at least see a (very distant) Snowy Owl, which she cleverly spotted, even though we had hoped to find a much closer one. Thank goodness, last year, my daughter and I did see and photograph beautiful Snowies E and NE of the city, that were nice and close.
Finding one of these magnificent birds of prey was not the only purpose in our minds, though. It was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, in beautiful sunshine and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers delicious food.
www.saskatoonfarm.com/
Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of several old barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the short drive was very smooth. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I knew that I would be having a very long day on 23rd December, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender.
On 21 December 2015, my daughter and I had our Christmas get-together. Like last year, she asked if I wanted to spend the day out of the city, looking for Snowy Owls (and other things). We were both so happy to at least see a (very distant) Snowy Owl, which she cleverly spotted, even though we had hoped to find a much closer one. Thank goodness, last year, my daughter and I did see and photograph beautiful Snowies E and NE of the city, that were nice and close.
Finding one of these magnificent birds of prey was not the only purpose in our minds, though. It was our Christmas get-together, and we had a great day, in beautiful sunshine and in one of my favourite areas to explore. We had first planned to go NE of the city, but my daughter, waiting for her surgery on 11 January 2016, didn't feel up to travelling that far.
So, plans changed and instead, we went to the Saskatoon Farm for breakfast. This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers delicious food.
www.saskatoonfarm.com/
Afterwards, we then went a bit further, to drive some of the roads east of High River, hoping to possibly find a Snowy Owl. We went as far as Mossleigh, where we stopped to take a few quick photos of the three grain elevators and then found a group of several old barns that I don't remember seeing before. They were off the main road, but fortunately the narrow gravel road had enough snow packed on it that the short drive was very smooth. From there, we also stopped at the little wooden church at Dinton.
Later in the afternoon, we couldn't resist the temptation to call in at Glamorgan Bakery on the way home and buy a few Christmas goodies, followed by a desperately needed food shopping trip. I just hadn't had a chance to go grocery shopping and had run out of even basic things. This was a huge relief, especially as I knew that I would be having a very long day on 23rd December, taking part in the Drumheller area Christmas Bird Count.
Thanks so much for a great day out, Rachel. The best kind of day, as far as I am concerned : ) Many thanks, too, for the beautiful, very carefully chosen (as always!) Christmas gifts. Love the owl that looks rather like a furry, stuffed children's toy, that is in fact a wonderful heat pad (that you warm in the microwave), full of lavender.
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