A splash of different colour
Growing on a tree trunk
Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris
A beauty from mushroom season
Peregrine Falcon talons
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Hiding in the shadows
Simplicity
Clematis after the rain
Raindrops
Narcissus
Colour for a snowy day
False Morel fungus
Oak leaf and insect gall
Showy Milkweed with bee
Seedpod of Datura sp.?
A bright splash of colour
Fall colour
Small fungi growing among the mosses
Like floral flames for a deep-freeze day
Beginning to burst
The droplet
Remembering summer colours
Snowman who loves Amanitas
A splash of fall colour
Cheery sunflower
Unidentified fruit
Summer colour
Goat's-beard with visitor
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
Decorating the base of a tree
Seedhead wisps
Just needed colour
Heart of a Snowdrop
Chocolate Pansy / Chocolate Soldier / Junonia iphi…
Colour among the mosses and lichens
Bark patterns on a cut log
Wild Bergamot
Showing off its gills
Invasive Goat's-beard and Baby's breath
Chocolate chip lichen / Solorina crocea
Pinedrops
Crab on the pier at Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Allamanda, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Giant seedpod of the Flame Tree, Blue Waters Inn,…
Cutie on the beach - Atlantic ghost crab / Ocypode…
Ixora
Splash of colour
Tropical shell
It's hard work, but someone's got to do it
Aphelandra sp. (Aphelandra pulcherrima?), Little T…
Torch Ginger / Etlingera eliator, Trinidad
Cacao tree (chocolate!), on way to Brasso Seco, Tr…
Artichoke, Saskatoon Farm
Splash of colour, Trinidad
Powder Puff flower / Calliandra, Trinidad
Ant on Kohleria tubiflora, Trinidad
Lotus seedpod, Nariva Swamp afternoon, Trinidad
Vervain / Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, Asa Wright N…
American Robin's egg on the ground
Aphelandra sinclairiana, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Springtime colour
Shooting stars / Dodecatheon sp. (and Dandelions)
Colours and textures
Turquoise fungi / Blue Stain / Chlorociboria aerug…
A big splash of colour
Aging beauties
Fungi goblets
Deadly duo - Amanita muscaria
Katydid on Common Tansy
Sunflower going to seed
Alpine Harebell
Astilbe
Ice crystals on a mountain top
As fall colours come to an end
Larch in fall colour
Brightness on a cloudy day
Puffballs on Plateau Mountain
False Dandelion / Agoseris glauca
A fine network of cells - maybe Arcyria obvelata?
Rusty Gilled Polypore / Gloeophyllum sepiarium
Yesterday's find
Autumn berries
Three insect species on a single flower
Strap/Coral Club / Clavariadelphus ligula
Reindeer lichen
Look into my eyes
Fungus on a log
Highbush cranberry / Viburnum opulus var. american…
Growing amongst the mosses
Dragonfly in Southern Alberta - a Flame Skimmer?
Why I would never eat wild mushrooms : )
Gathering in the forest
An odd colour in nature
False Morel fungus
Texture
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Aspen Roughstem Bolete / Leccinum insigne
A family of textured caps
A garden in the forest
A fun find
A cute little cluster
Yellow Columbine
Cream and wine-coloured
Yellow Avens / Geum aleppicum
Pinedrops / Pterospora - rare
Fungi family
Popular with the flies
Northern Gentian
Northern Willowherb / Epilobium ciliatum
Beauty in the forest
Gaillardia with little visitor
Yellow Owl's-clover / Orthocarpus luteus
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
Fly Agaric / Amanita muscaria
Loved by Monarch butterflies
Large, fat-stalked mushroom
Memorial Rose for Carl Handfield
Strange, tall-stalked fungus
Slime mold
Goat's-beard
Scabious growing in the wild
Red-belted Polypore with guttation droplets
Splash of colour on a rainy day
The 'Sickener' / Russula emetica
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Mariposa Lily
A photo that I am posting today, just for the record, as it is rather blurry/grainy. I think I only saw about three of these beautiful Mariposa Lilies during a trip to Waterton Lakes National Park, 8-10 July 2016. It was windy and not good for photographing wildflowers. Last year, 2015, from 19-21 June, we saw thousands of these flowers. It was very windy then, too.
"With its merging landforms, connected ecoregions and its mild, moist, windy climate, Waterton Lakes National Park is an amazing meeting place for an abundant and diverse collection of vegetation.
Despite it's small size (505 sq km) Waterton is graced with over 1000 species of vascular plants . Over half of Alberta's plant species are found in this tiny place. The park's four ecoregions - foothills parkland, montane, subalpine and alpine - embrace forty-five vegetation communities. Sixteen of these are considered significant because they are rare or fragile and threatened.
Waterton also has an unusually high number of rare plants - over 175 are provincially rare (e.g. mountain lady's-slipper, pygmy poppy, mountain hollyhock), and over twenty of these are found only in the Waterton area (e.g. western wakerobin, Lewis' mock-orange, white-veined wintergreen). Over 50 species are rare in Canada (e.g. Bolander's quillwort, Lyall's scorpionweed, Brewer's monkeyflower.)" From Parks Canada website.
www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul1/f.aspx
It was wonderful to again be surrounded by such magnificent scenery, go on a few pleasantly slow walks/hikes with plenty of time to look for, and photograph, wildflowers, insects, and a few birds and animals. Lots of great company with 22 people, some of whom I already knew and lots of new faces, too. The trip was organized by Nature Calgary. Everyone was free to go wherever they wanted each day, but for the two nights, we stayed at the very basic Canyon Church Camp, off the Red Rock Parkway. Dorm-style cabins (about which I will say nothing, lol!), but they do have showers and even flush toilets at the camp. We were fed so well - lots of variety and good food. We were given two breakfasts and two suppers, plus a packed lunch for the two days. Our thanks go out to the lady (can't remember her name, sorry, but she was also there for us in July 2015) who cooked and prepared these meals for us! They were so much enjoyed and greatly appreciated!
Thank you SO much, Janet, for driving your friend and me to and from Calgary and around the park some of the time, too. To say that I appreciated it is a huge understatement!! Our thanks, too, to Andrew for organizing this trip so brilliantly, as usual! A great time was had by all. And I am SO happy and relieved that you were finally able to find a bear (and her cub) - yes, we came across the same ones shortly after you saw them. Not sure if they were two of the three I had seen at more or less the same location the previous morning, 9 July 2016. If it was the same female, then her second cub must have been really well hidden in the tangle of bushes and trees. We didn't get a good view, though I did take a handful of photos, including when the cub looked towards us for a split second. I had never seen such a young cub before, so I was thrilled to bits. Can't forget to add my huge thanks for finding me a Lazuli Bunting too, at some unearthly hour (well, 7:30 am). No idea how on earth you managed to spot such a small bird from so far away - just a tiny speck in the far, far distance. Also was delighted that you found two Nighthawks flying high overhead at the Nature Conservancy area on the Saturday evening. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
"With its merging landforms, connected ecoregions and its mild, moist, windy climate, Waterton Lakes National Park is an amazing meeting place for an abundant and diverse collection of vegetation.
Despite it's small size (505 sq km) Waterton is graced with over 1000 species of vascular plants . Over half of Alberta's plant species are found in this tiny place. The park's four ecoregions - foothills parkland, montane, subalpine and alpine - embrace forty-five vegetation communities. Sixteen of these are considered significant because they are rare or fragile and threatened.
Waterton also has an unusually high number of rare plants - over 175 are provincially rare (e.g. mountain lady's-slipper, pygmy poppy, mountain hollyhock), and over twenty of these are found only in the Waterton area (e.g. western wakerobin, Lewis' mock-orange, white-veined wintergreen). Over 50 species are rare in Canada (e.g. Bolander's quillwort, Lyall's scorpionweed, Brewer's monkeyflower.)" From Parks Canada website.
www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul1/f.aspx
It was wonderful to again be surrounded by such magnificent scenery, go on a few pleasantly slow walks/hikes with plenty of time to look for, and photograph, wildflowers, insects, and a few birds and animals. Lots of great company with 22 people, some of whom I already knew and lots of new faces, too. The trip was organized by Nature Calgary. Everyone was free to go wherever they wanted each day, but for the two nights, we stayed at the very basic Canyon Church Camp, off the Red Rock Parkway. Dorm-style cabins (about which I will say nothing, lol!), but they do have showers and even flush toilets at the camp. We were fed so well - lots of variety and good food. We were given two breakfasts and two suppers, plus a packed lunch for the two days. Our thanks go out to the lady (can't remember her name, sorry, but she was also there for us in July 2015) who cooked and prepared these meals for us! They were so much enjoyed and greatly appreciated!
Thank you SO much, Janet, for driving your friend and me to and from Calgary and around the park some of the time, too. To say that I appreciated it is a huge understatement!! Our thanks, too, to Andrew for organizing this trip so brilliantly, as usual! A great time was had by all. And I am SO happy and relieved that you were finally able to find a bear (and her cub) - yes, we came across the same ones shortly after you saw them. Not sure if they were two of the three I had seen at more or less the same location the previous morning, 9 July 2016. If it was the same female, then her second cub must have been really well hidden in the tangle of bushes and trees. We didn't get a good view, though I did take a handful of photos, including when the cub looked towards us for a split second. I had never seen such a young cub before, so I was thrilled to bits. Can't forget to add my huge thanks for finding me a Lazuli Bunting too, at some unearthly hour (well, 7:30 am). No idea how on earth you managed to spot such a small bird from so far away - just a tiny speck in the far, far distance. Also was delighted that you found two Nighthawks flying high overhead at the Nature Conservancy area on the Saturday evening. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
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