Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Pink (African?) Daisies
Sea Holly
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Lest We Forget
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Old and rusty tractor
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False Solomon's Seal
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Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
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Sunflower, against a pink barn
The sunflower droop
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Botanizing Beagles - Ben and Maggie
Invasive Yellow Clematis
On the way home from Cartwright bio-blitz
On the way home from Cartwrights' land
Western Wood Lily
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
Pretty in pink
Pink Ginger, Trinidad
Milk Thistle, I believe
Kohleria tubiflora, Trinidad
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Tropical plant, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Unidentified tree, Trinidad
Torch Ginger, deep in the shadows
Is this a Banksia species?
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Tropical flower, Trinidad - Begonia
The end of an Artichoke
Torch Ginger, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Pachystachys coccinea?
In memory of my daughter
The final stage of an Artichoke
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Before "winter" arrived
Lest we forget
September flowers
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
End of the season
A touch of Halloween
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Artichoke flower with different bee species
Kohleria tubiflora, Trinidad
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
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Sneezewort Yarrow / Achillea ptarmica
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
A filtered Poppy
When the last petal has fallen
Showy Aster
Jackie's Hummingbird
Geranium sp.
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A pot full of colour
A wild Sunflower from a gravel road
Little green hearts of White Camas
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Alfalfa
We have been under a heat warning recently, and yesterday's temperature got up to either 31C or 32C. It was just unbearable in my place and I needed to get out for a short drive and be in the air-conditioning of my car. We have also been having rain on some days, which was desperately needed. As I headed out west yesterday, I could see that I was heading towards a grey sky and, sure enough, the rain started. Not the best sort of day for photos, but I managed to get a few to keep me happy. All of the roads were my usual roads, though the views from them all had smoke haze. I'm not sure which wildfires this smoke is coming from - down in the US, or British Columbia, or from fires in our own province? I haven't noticed a smokey smell, though. Last summer, 2017, was dreadful for non-stop smoke and heat.
I love Alfalfa flowers, as not only can a flower cluster be white, yellow, purple and so on, but some individual clusters can be a mix of different colours.
“Alfalfa, a plant of the pea family grown primarily for forage, especially as hay. It is one of the most useful and widely grown hay crops in the world.
Because of its high protein content, alfalfa is used as a food for almost all farm animals as hay, as silage, or as a temporary pasture crop. Because of its nitrogen-fixing properties, it is used in crop rotation to improve soil for other crops. When planted in combination with grasses, it helps prevent soil erosion. Alfalfa is also grown commercially for seed in arid or semiarid regions. Dehydrated alfalfa is ground into meal and used in feeding poultry and livestock. Indirectly, alfalfa is a source of honey, because bees gather substantial quantities of nectar from alfalfa flowers.”
www.alfalfaseedab.com/
Along one of the gravel roads, I suddenly spotted two pairs of ears sticking up from a green field - a White-tailed doe and a youngster. The next photo was the sharpest of the three or four photos I grabbed before they took off at high speed. Unfortunately, it only shows the mother.
A young Magpie was one of several in a family along one of the backroads. Love its fluffy feathers. It only rested on a fence post for a few seconds. Other than a few of the usual birds, such as Brewer's Blackbirds, Cedar Waxwings and Eastern Kingbirds, the only bird that was different was a Wilson's Snipe that was at the far water's edge of a large pond. Too far for even remotely decent photos, but it made a change to see a Snipe on the ground and not on a fence post.
I love Alfalfa flowers, as not only can a flower cluster be white, yellow, purple and so on, but some individual clusters can be a mix of different colours.
“Alfalfa, a plant of the pea family grown primarily for forage, especially as hay. It is one of the most useful and widely grown hay crops in the world.
Because of its high protein content, alfalfa is used as a food for almost all farm animals as hay, as silage, or as a temporary pasture crop. Because of its nitrogen-fixing properties, it is used in crop rotation to improve soil for other crops. When planted in combination with grasses, it helps prevent soil erosion. Alfalfa is also grown commercially for seed in arid or semiarid regions. Dehydrated alfalfa is ground into meal and used in feeding poultry and livestock. Indirectly, alfalfa is a source of honey, because bees gather substantial quantities of nectar from alfalfa flowers.”
www.alfalfaseedab.com/
Along one of the gravel roads, I suddenly spotted two pairs of ears sticking up from a green field - a White-tailed doe and a youngster. The next photo was the sharpest of the three or four photos I grabbed before they took off at high speed. Unfortunately, it only shows the mother.
A young Magpie was one of several in a family along one of the backroads. Love its fluffy feathers. It only rested on a fence post for a few seconds. Other than a few of the usual birds, such as Brewer's Blackbirds, Cedar Waxwings and Eastern Kingbirds, the only bird that was different was a Wilson's Snipe that was at the far water's edge of a large pond. Too far for even remotely decent photos, but it made a change to see a Snipe on the ground and not on a fence post.
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