Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

Count Orlok, Nosferatu, lui-meme. (From the exhibition "Blood Suckers", Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 2019). www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6jFoYm3xs

Verbascum thapsus, the great mullein, is a European plant that has adapted very successfully to living in N. America as a fairly common weed.

Every autumn we bring our rosemary plant indoors to escape the winter. It responds by bursting into flower. They are tiny, but looked at closely they are beautiful examples of nature's engineering.

First snow of the season. Canoes.

First snow of the season. This is close to an abandoned orchard, I think it might be the old apple barn.

First snow of the season.

Happy Halloween. The haunted house down the road.

A slightly wet blue jay.

A walk in the woods.

A duck showing her finery. I think they were gathering to migrate south.

A Northern Cardinal in the garden

A bee behaving strangely. I am not sure what this bee was doing. It was moving in circles and every now and then raising it hind quarters and lowering its head as though it were kneeling. It seemed very deliberate but I couldn't see what purpose it served.

A bit of an oddity. This is a pure white squirrel in the grounds of McGill University in Montreal. A little Googling and it turns out he/she is known on the campus and is called Cloudberry. The photo is not the best quality, it was taken by cell phone from quite a distance but it was so unusual (at least to me) that I decided to post it anyway. Cloudberry behaved like any other squirrel, was very active and seemed undisturbed by its unusual coloration. (PS. I posted this earlier today but accidently deleted the original post, this is the second upload, hope that doesn't mess anything up).

Pokeweed berries and an apple. The pokeweed turned up by itself in the garden. It's the first time we have had it. The berries are attractive but toxic to humans

Old pic. I was playing with settings on the phone camera, using the 'document' function to take regular photos. Mostly it didn't work, the program, which recognizes the hard edges of documents and reprocess the images to include only what is inside these edges, got very confused. But I liked the way this one turned out. It took the long vertical lines of the sides of shelving, and interpreted them as a very long, narrow document.

Ingredients for autumn vegetable soup.

Sticky sage (Salvia glutinosa) is, as its name suggests, covered in sticky hairs. It has a strong aroma, not unpleasant but not sweet either. This is a male flower, and to my mind its white pollen on the anther makes it look like a "toothy" open mouth. When bees land on the platform they activate a lever mechanism that deposits the pollen grains on their backs. It's a beautiful example of floral engineering.

Tiny purple perilla flowers. They are only about a few mm across but a big hit with the bumble bees.