Simplicity
Oak leaf and insect gall
A touch of blue
Heart of a Snowdrop
Old times remembered
Crested Wheatgrass / Agropyron cristatum
White-necked Jacobin female, Asa Wright Nature Cen…
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Lotus seedpod, Nariva Swamp afternoon, Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper female preening, Asa Wright Na…
Old Ford V8 pick-up truck
Purple Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright
Lichen on the rocks at Rock Glacier
Happy Christmas Eve!
Why names just don't suit the bird
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Rainforest of the Arima Valley, Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Evening mist in the rainforest
Trillium with a visitor, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Victoria Water Lily / Victoria amazonica
Rough cocklebur / Xanthium strumarium
Maple sp.?
When fall comes after 'winter'
Day 6, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas, southern Texa…
Old farm trucks
A group of old beauties
Kananaskis on a mixed-weather day
Late September in Kananaskis, 2019
Hops / Humulus lupulus
Fall colours at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
Glorious colours of fall
Cladonia lichen
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
A surprise on the trail - a Tomato hornworm
Landscape colours
Paintbush, with a visiting Crab Spider
A forest find
Green caterpillar on Balsamroot
Tangled
Fence post with a difference
Summer greens
Christmas remnants
Fall reflections
Farmland of the Alberta foothills
Coffee Bean tree / Coffea
Pretty shade of Paintbrush
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
A delicate shade of Paintbrush
The changing colour of Baneberry berries
Brightening up the forest
Maidenhair Fern / Adiantum aleuticum
Brant grain elevator
Brant grain elevator
Green on green
Seedpod of the Sacred Lotus
Sunny reflections
The Archduke
Abyss Pool, West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone
Herronton Elevator
Showing its age
Brant grain elevator
Herronton elevator
A different season
Petal and buds
With open arms
Out of the darkness comes light... in memory of 11…
Globe Thistle
Asparagus
White Spruce
Cardoon with tiny visitor
Liverwort
Curly greens
Green Orchid
Is this my best side?
Cute little sucker
Red Eyed Tree Frog
Green
In my garden
Slime mold, Spirit Rocks Sanctuary
Conocephalum conicum liverwort
Nature's tree decorations
One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora
Tropical green
Globe Artichoke
A world of green
Study in contrasts
One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora
Magic in the mist
Christmas Smarties
Treasures on a lily pad
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A colourful walk through the woods
With most of our autumn colour gone, it feels good to be able to look back to photos from 1 October 2016. On that day, I finally had my very first visit to the Silver Springs Botanical Gardens, thanks to friend, Sandy. I first heard about this beautiful place from my daughter, but I had never been, because it is way out of my city driving comfort zone. In the morning, it was raining, at least in my part of the city, and I wondered if going would turn out to be a big mistake. However, the rain stopped and stayed away while we were there and, though the sky was overcast, I was still able to photograph to my heart's content. I was surprised at how many flowers were still in bloom on the first day of October and I was extremely impressed with how meticulously these gardens are kept - every inch of them. So many different kinds of trees and plants, and it was very obvious that each area had been planted with so much thought and care. Amazing that dedicated volunteers have been, and continue to be, the ones to thank for these gardens.
Thanks so much, Sandy, for giving me the chance to spend an afternoon in such beauty and peace! We all knew that snow wasn't far away and about a week after this visit, Calgary had its first snowfall of the season, the whole of the Thanksgiving weekend. At least I now have plenty of bright, colourful photos that I will be able to post in between all the coming white, snowy images that will be taken during the seven, long months of winter.
"The Botanical Gardens of Silver Springs is without doubt one of the Seven Wonders of Calgary, Alberta. It boasts 1350 square meters (14 600 square feet) of gardens which includes a spectacular Wall Garden that runs an uninterrupted 1300 feet. In the gardens you will find an endless variety of annuals and perennials ranging from artemisias to zinnias. Here indeed is a place to stop and smell the roses and the peonies and the delphiniums and the chrysanthemums and the …
What makes these gardens so very special is that they were created and continue to be maintained by a band of green-thumbed enthusiastic volunteers. These hale and hearty diggers, planters, seeders, weeders, mowers, waterers, pruners and community builders work two to three mornings a week to keep the gardens in primrose shape and their efforts are truly appreciated by the many walkers, joggers, and cyclists.
On any given day, hundreds of people walk the wall garden with their families, friends and out-of-town visitors. It has become a treasured destination site for many.
For anyone who has spent time in the gardens, it is hard to believe that they have only been here since 2006 when a humble ornamental garden (400 square feet) was developed within the existing BirthPlace Forest tree beds.
The BPF, by the way, saw 7000 trees planted in the area. The project was accomplished through a partnership of BP Energy, Calgary Parks, Regional Health and Golden Acres." From the gardens' website.
www.botanicalgardensofsilversprings.ca/
Thanks so much, Sandy, for giving me the chance to spend an afternoon in such beauty and peace! We all knew that snow wasn't far away and about a week after this visit, Calgary had its first snowfall of the season, the whole of the Thanksgiving weekend. At least I now have plenty of bright, colourful photos that I will be able to post in between all the coming white, snowy images that will be taken during the seven, long months of winter.
"The Botanical Gardens of Silver Springs is without doubt one of the Seven Wonders of Calgary, Alberta. It boasts 1350 square meters (14 600 square feet) of gardens which includes a spectacular Wall Garden that runs an uninterrupted 1300 feet. In the gardens you will find an endless variety of annuals and perennials ranging from artemisias to zinnias. Here indeed is a place to stop and smell the roses and the peonies and the delphiniums and the chrysanthemums and the …
What makes these gardens so very special is that they were created and continue to be maintained by a band of green-thumbed enthusiastic volunteers. These hale and hearty diggers, planters, seeders, weeders, mowers, waterers, pruners and community builders work two to three mornings a week to keep the gardens in primrose shape and their efforts are truly appreciated by the many walkers, joggers, and cyclists.
On any given day, hundreds of people walk the wall garden with their families, friends and out-of-town visitors. It has become a treasured destination site for many.
For anyone who has spent time in the gardens, it is hard to believe that they have only been here since 2006 when a humble ornamental garden (400 square feet) was developed within the existing BirthPlace Forest tree beds.
The BPF, by the way, saw 7000 trees planted in the area. The project was accomplished through a partnership of BP Energy, Calgary Parks, Regional Health and Golden Acres." From the gardens' website.
www.botanicalgardensofsilversprings.ca/
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