Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Pink (African?) Daisies
Turkistan Burning Bush / Euonymus nanus turkmenist…
Maple sp.?
Sea Holly
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After our first major snowstorm
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Beauty in old age
Birdhouse with a difference
For the birds
Lest We Forget
A much-needed change of colour
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, Red Squirrel eating the bird food, Tadoussa…
Garden decoration
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Dreaming of spring
Much needed colour
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicia…
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Pots in the Blue Garden
Meghan & Kwesi's house
Poppy near the pond
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Yellow
Gaillardia
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Backlit Sunflower
The first day of fall
Sunflower, against a pink barn
A summer memory
Conservatory, Calgary Zoo
Garden flower
Colours of fall
The sunflower droop
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Pine Siskin
Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch juvenile / Spinus tristis
Hollyhock
Peony seedpods
Blue Himalayan Poppy
White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Beauty
A new addition
Pretty in pink
Chipping Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Milk Thistle, I believe
Sunflower detail
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Tropical pink, Trinidad
Splash of colour
Our last morning on island of Trinidad
Lacy curtain of ice
Old wagon in winter
The end of an Artichoke
A welcome splash of colour
The final stage of an Artichoke
Snow-capped
Common Redpoll
Aging Echinacea
Memories of colour
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
Before "winter" arrived
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
Lest we forget
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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
End of the season
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Cosmos beauty
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Last days before the snow
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Looper Moth sp.
Lasting beauty
Busy little bee
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The Long house, Pioneer Acres, Alberta, Canada
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About to open
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Bee on Sunflower
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Checkered Skipper sp.?
A filtered Poppy
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When the last petal has fallen
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The painted cow - "Some enchanted evening"
The five photos posted this morning were all taken yesterday, 11 September 2018. Our botany season has come to an end and so our main Naturalist had a group of us visit his amazing garden and a walk to look at wild and garden plants in his neighbourhood. Not the greatest weather, but at least the rain kept away. I think rain is in the forecast for the next week, which is a pity, as the fall leaves will all be on the ground before we know it. Mixed precipitation tonight.
This painted cow, now residing in someone's front garden in Calgary, dates back to the year 2000. The story behind this and many other cows is given in the Avenue magazine article below.
"If you’ve ever noticed large, strangely decorated cows that seem to dot the city and wondered, “what’s up with that?” wonder no more. The story goes back to the year 2000. A group of charity-minded individuals, led by artist and businesswoman Bonnie Laycock, thought Cowtown was lacking in cows, and so the Udderly Art: Colourful Cows for Calgary project was born. Taking inspiration from similar CowParade projects staged in Chicago and Zurich, the volunteer driven, not-for-profit project began creating large cow statue canvasses to be decorated by local artists and strewn about the city for a six month period, with its stated goals being to:
- Generate artistic creativity and showcases for Alberta artists,
- Bring smiles and chuckles to the faces of children and adults, Calgarians and visitors alike, and
- Raise funds for many charities.
The molded fiberglass cows were originally white, clocking in at 54 inches tall from head to hoof; 84 inches long from nose to tail; and weighing 90 pounds. (Though that number shot up to 900 once the concrete bases were added). Individuals and companies who initially purchased the cows for $5,000 each chose which artist would work on their bovines and, starting May 15, 1999 the cows were on display everywhere in the city from the airport to the zoo."
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/The-Story-of-Calgarys-Cow...
This painted cow, now residing in someone's front garden in Calgary, dates back to the year 2000. The story behind this and many other cows is given in the Avenue magazine article below.
"If you’ve ever noticed large, strangely decorated cows that seem to dot the city and wondered, “what’s up with that?” wonder no more. The story goes back to the year 2000. A group of charity-minded individuals, led by artist and businesswoman Bonnie Laycock, thought Cowtown was lacking in cows, and so the Udderly Art: Colourful Cows for Calgary project was born. Taking inspiration from similar CowParade projects staged in Chicago and Zurich, the volunteer driven, not-for-profit project began creating large cow statue canvasses to be decorated by local artists and strewn about the city for a six month period, with its stated goals being to:
- Generate artistic creativity and showcases for Alberta artists,
- Bring smiles and chuckles to the faces of children and adults, Calgarians and visitors alike, and
- Raise funds for many charities.
The molded fiberglass cows were originally white, clocking in at 54 inches tall from head to hoof; 84 inches long from nose to tail; and weighing 90 pounds. (Though that number shot up to 900 once the concrete bases were added). Individuals and companies who initially purchased the cows for $5,000 each chose which artist would work on their bovines and, starting May 15, 1999 the cows were on display everywhere in the city from the airport to the zoo."
www.avenuecalgary.com/City-Life/The-Story-of-Calgarys-Cow...
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