September flowers
At the Saskatoon Farm
Lest we forget
Shadows
Before "winter" arrived
Black farm cat
Purple Honeycreeper male
Memories of colour
Aging Echinacea
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
The sweetest little thing
Licorice Allsorts eyes
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Young White-tailed Deer
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The final stage of an Artichoke
Back-lit White-tailed Deer
Love a Llama
In memory of my daughter
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Oilbird, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Pachystachys coccinea?
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Golden Tegu, Asa Wright, Trinidad
The end of an Artichoke
Tropical flower, Trinidad - Begonia
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Asystasia gangetica, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Trinidad
Tropical flower, Asa Wright, Trinidad
A scream from the Asa Wright verandah, Trinidad
A cute, young face
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Unidentified tree, Trinidad
Nibbling on a tasty leaf
Plant from the Whaleback
Yellow-bellied Marmot
The beauty of Borage
Dreaming of spring and summer
Purple Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Tropical plant, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Evening Grosbeak male
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Sedge
Purple Honeycreeper, Trinidad
Little angel
Milk Thistle, I believe
Trillium
Pretty in pink
Beauty
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches / Dicentra cucullaria, Pt Pele…
Trillium with a visitor, Pt Pelee, Ontario
American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac, Quebec
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Eastern Kingbird
Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Dragonfly - Black Meadowhawk?
Sweet White-tailed doe
Snow-capped berries
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Rufous-vented chachalaca, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Lichens on nature trail at KOAC
Goodbye fall, hello winter!
End of the season
Curious Alpaca
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
After a busy night of hunting
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Kohleria tubiflora, Trinidad
Cosmos beauty
Same kind of flower as yesterday's
Purity
Happy Thanksgiving!
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Gentians in a friend's garden
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Last days before the snow
Sunflower and visitors
Sweet young owl
Colours
Memories of Waterton - Bear Grass
Rooster, Saskatoon Farm
Back view of an orange Sunflower
Origanum vulgare
Lasting beauty
Busy little bee
Back-lit Goat's-beard
Cabbage White on Creeping Thistle
Grass in bloom
Bees, bees and more bees
About to open
Bear Grass bud / Xerophyllum tenax
Bee on Sunflower
Checkered Skipper sp.?
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Hosta flowers
Hanging on
When the last petal has fallen
Red Birds in a Tree plant
Painted Lady
Short-eared Owl
Showy Aster
Geranium sp.
Splash of colour
Painted Lady
Yesterday's main find : (
I fell in love ....
Ohio Buckeye or ?
Who can resist a Burrowing Owl?
A wild Sunflower from a gravel road
Little green hearts of White Camas
Day Lily
Star-flowered Solomon's Seal / Maianthemum stellat…
Bear Grass bud
Common Tansy / Tanacetum vulgare
Bear Grass with Crab Spider and prey
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Licking salt from the road
On 10 August 2017, I finally did a drive that I had never done before. I'm always hearing or reading about Sheep River Provincial Park, but it was not until maybe three weeks ago, that I got round to looking on Google to see exactly where it is. I found that maybe the first half of the drive, as far as Turner Valley, I had done before, which helped. The drive west from Turner Valley to just past the Sheep River falls was all new, so I "drove" the whole length on Google Earth to see what it was like, before I actually went there..
The whole distance from home and back was 195 km, so it was a much shorter trip than when I drove all the way south to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre (511 km), on 3 August. I was hoping to see some wildlife and beautiful scenery, but the most important purpose for this trip was simply to make myself do a new drive. I almost didn't go, as I woke up later than I had planned, not feeling the greatest, and didn't leave home till 11:15 am. Glad I pushed myself out the front door, though.
The only wildlife I saw was a Mule Deer doe, that I saw in two different places. She was looking for salt along the road and couldn't make up her mind whether to cross the road in front of me or not. I sat in my car and waited, and eventually she did cross and ended up near the passenger side of my car.
When I was almost at the very end of this road, I stopped to take a look at the Sheep River Falls. It takes just a short walk from the parking lot to get a view of the falls below. Towards the end of my walk, black clouds rolled in and there was a bit of thunder accompanied by a sprinkling of rain. Short-lived, thankfully.
As for scenery, the smoke continued from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires. This resulted in poor landscape shots, at least with my little point-and-shoot. I did post just a couple of scenic views, not for their photographic merit, but just to remind myself what the landscape in that area is like.
The whole distance from home and back was 195 km, so it was a much shorter trip than when I drove all the way south to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre (511 km), on 3 August. I was hoping to see some wildlife and beautiful scenery, but the most important purpose for this trip was simply to make myself do a new drive. I almost didn't go, as I woke up later than I had planned, not feeling the greatest, and didn't leave home till 11:15 am. Glad I pushed myself out the front door, though.
The only wildlife I saw was a Mule Deer doe, that I saw in two different places. She was looking for salt along the road and couldn't make up her mind whether to cross the road in front of me or not. I sat in my car and waited, and eventually she did cross and ended up near the passenger side of my car.
When I was almost at the very end of this road, I stopped to take a look at the Sheep River Falls. It takes just a short walk from the parking lot to get a view of the falls below. Towards the end of my walk, black clouds rolled in and there was a bit of thunder accompanied by a sprinkling of rain. Short-lived, thankfully.
As for scenery, the smoke continued from the British Columbia and Alberta wildfires. This resulted in poor landscape shots, at least with my little point-and-shoot. I did post just a couple of scenic views, not for their photographic merit, but just to remind myself what the landscape in that area is like.
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