01 The glory of fall
A colourful walk through the woods
Simplicity
Ornamental Cabbage or Ornamental Kale?
Magic hour
Freedom
Horningsham, Wiltshire
Oak leaf and insect gall
One spectacular fall day
Pine Grosbeaks
A welcome splash of red
A beautiful start to a day
Colour for winter
Mailbox or birdhouse?
Jazzing up the old silos - with Pacman
Modern - but I like it
Colour from Ornamental Cabbages
Allamanda, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Gorgeous orange flowers of the Flame tree
Splash of colour
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright Nature Centr…
Torch Ginger / Etlingera eliator, Trinidad
Feeding frenzy, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Torch Ginger / Etlingera elatior, Asa Wright Natur…
Collared Trogon / Trogon collaris, Asa Wright, Bel…
Hot Lips / Psychotria poeppigiana, Asa Wright Natu…
Green Honeycreeper, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trin…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
A big splash of colour
A patterned sky
When fall colours are just a memory
The Wall Garden - October is Breast Cancer Awarene…
Bark colour after the rain
Fall colours at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
Purple Petunias
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
No need to worry about one or two wrinkles
Astilbe
As fall colours come to an end
Larch in fall colour
Autumn colours at the stormwater pond
Glorious colours of fall
View from space??
Rusty Gilled Polypore / Gloeophyllum sepiarium
Colourful bling
Across the river
Tea, anyone?
Eyelash fungi
Bunchberry Meadows, Nature Conservancy
The arrival of fall
Lichens and moss at Rock Glacier
Painted Turtle basking in the sun
Lost For Words ...
Colourful Lodz City
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
Little red cabin
Rural decay
The Grad Barn 2016
Doors
And then there were only THREE!
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The beauty of fall
I absolutely love this road with its beautiful scenery of foothills and mountains. When I drove along it on 3 October, the fall colours were still colourful and the cloud formation was amazing. A bad road for the car, though, with its gravel and flying dust. Since that day, we have had snow and fog and I'm not sure I'll be doing this drive again before next spring.
The only time I had ever driven to Kananaskis (the mountain area closest to Calgary) was on 10 September 2016, when my daughter came with me. I wasn't too impressed with the photos I took on this first drive, especially of the little Pikas (Rock Rabbits) that we went to see, so I wanted to go back and spend a bit more time with them. A drive like this is also helping me get a bit more used to my new car - before the roads are covered in snow and ice! Actually, there were a few small patches of snow on the ground in places close to the trees when I got to where I see these Pikas.
I left home at 8:45 am, later than I had intended, and drove southwards via Millarville and the back way to Highway 40. When I Googled the distance via that route, it gave me 134 km, 1 hr 41 mins from home to the Highwood Pass. Needless to say, I kept stopping to take photos, so it took me longer than that. By the time I got back home around 5:00 pm, I had driven 299 km. This day was a Monday, so not much traffic anywhere, which makes a huge difference.
This time, I only drove as far as the Pikas, just north of the Highwood Pass, especially as I wanted to make sure that I wasn't driving home in the dark. The Highwood Pass, at an elevation of 2,206 m (7,238 ft) is the highest paved pass in Canada. In past years, I have hiked the Ptarmigan Cirque, Pocaterra and Arethusa Cirque trails, but can no longer do hikes like these. The scenery is breathtaking in this whole area (indeed, for the whole drive), some mountain slopes covered in forest and other mountain faces displaying bald, breathtaking folds above the treeline.
There was only one 'scary' incident on this trip. I had stopped to take a few scenic shots when I was on this backroad to join Highway 40. I didn't push my car door completely closed and when I went to open it, I discovered it was locked! Pressing the fob to open all the doors did nothing. I just could not get into my vehicle. Thank goodness, I had read on the Internet that there is a key hidden away inside the fob - otherwise I would never have known and might still be standing there, lol!
Feels SO good to know that I am now comfortable enough to do this drive on my own, after so many years of wishing I had the courage to do it. Thank you, little Pikas, for being so adorably cute, that I was determined to drive back to see you : )
The only time I had ever driven to Kananaskis (the mountain area closest to Calgary) was on 10 September 2016, when my daughter came with me. I wasn't too impressed with the photos I took on this first drive, especially of the little Pikas (Rock Rabbits) that we went to see, so I wanted to go back and spend a bit more time with them. A drive like this is also helping me get a bit more used to my new car - before the roads are covered in snow and ice! Actually, there were a few small patches of snow on the ground in places close to the trees when I got to where I see these Pikas.
I left home at 8:45 am, later than I had intended, and drove southwards via Millarville and the back way to Highway 40. When I Googled the distance via that route, it gave me 134 km, 1 hr 41 mins from home to the Highwood Pass. Needless to say, I kept stopping to take photos, so it took me longer than that. By the time I got back home around 5:00 pm, I had driven 299 km. This day was a Monday, so not much traffic anywhere, which makes a huge difference.
This time, I only drove as far as the Pikas, just north of the Highwood Pass, especially as I wanted to make sure that I wasn't driving home in the dark. The Highwood Pass, at an elevation of 2,206 m (7,238 ft) is the highest paved pass in Canada. In past years, I have hiked the Ptarmigan Cirque, Pocaterra and Arethusa Cirque trails, but can no longer do hikes like these. The scenery is breathtaking in this whole area (indeed, for the whole drive), some mountain slopes covered in forest and other mountain faces displaying bald, breathtaking folds above the treeline.
There was only one 'scary' incident on this trip. I had stopped to take a few scenic shots when I was on this backroad to join Highway 40. I didn't push my car door completely closed and when I went to open it, I discovered it was locked! Pressing the fob to open all the doors did nothing. I just could not get into my vehicle. Thank goodness, I had read on the Internet that there is a key hidden away inside the fob - otherwise I would never have known and might still be standing there, lol!
Feels SO good to know that I am now comfortable enough to do this drive on my own, after so many years of wishing I had the courage to do it. Thank you, little Pikas, for being so adorably cute, that I was determined to drive back to see you : )
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