Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: DMC-FZ28

An old photo from my archives, taken on 12th August 2009, near the Irrigation Canal near 17th Avenue. I believe the berries turn red.

Reminding me of a delicious glazed doughnut, this fungus was growing at Griffith Woods on 5th August 2009.

Happened to notice that I never uploaded this fungus image that I took at Rod Handfield's property, near Millarville, just over two years ago. Wanted to add it to my Rod Handfield's set of images. I'm only seeing the very occasional (non spectacular/photogenic) fungus this year - plus I seem to have lost my passion for going out looking : ( Really hoping that might change this coming weekend : ) I think I have just too many urgent things to deal with at the moment - including waiting to hear if my brother's house in England has definitely sold, wondering just where the 12 boxes of sentimental items that belonged to my parents and my brother (which are coming from England to Calgary) are at this moment - they can't be far away now, and I have so much I should be doing before they are delivered. At least I now have all the lists and documents completed, ready to take to the Custom's Office, which is a relief. I also have to chase up the company that is supposed to be coming to look at my small back garden to see about building a ground-level deck from fence to fence (to get rid of all my garden worries once and for all).

I did post a similar image to this one a couple of years ago, but came across this unposted one in one of my files. This month (August) is supposed to be the peak of fungi season here - but where ARE all the fungi? It seems that this year is not going to be a good year for them, for some reason. My good friend, Linda, in England e-mailed me yesterday to say that she had just driven past my brother's house and that there was a SOLD sign in the garden. So, I won't be totally convinced until I have actually heard from the Solicitor that everything has been 100% completed, but it does sound like good news. It will be a miracle if it has indeed sold, as it was in dreadful condition (meaning that I had to reduce the price horrendously!) and also houses just aren't selling over there. At least I won't have to keep paying Solicitor fees, Realtor fees, house insurance, etc., etc. once it has sold, and that will be a relief. Then, yesterday evening, I had a phone call from Mississauga, Ontario, letting me know that the 12 boxes of sentimental items that belonged to my parents and my brother have now arrived in Ontario. So happy to know that they are on dry land in Canada and not drowned somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, lol!! They should arrive in Calgary before or by the end of August, which gives me a little time to do some clearing and cleaning, to make room for them all.

Unfortunately, in my photo it looks as if the "stalk" might just be in shadow, but in fact it is black. Came across this photo that I hadn't posted back in the summer of 2009 and wanted to add it to my set of images taken on Rod Handfield's property, south of Calgary, near Millarville. As you can see, this fungus has pores on the underside of the cap, not gills. I'm not sure if this is a Bay-brown Polypore (Polyporus badius).

After checking to see if I had already posted this photo on Flickr, and not finding it, I thought I would post it today. Taken in North Glenmore Park on 14th June 2009! Maybe a species of Click Beetle?

This was such a bright Indian Paintbrush plant, taken on a hike at Gunnery Pass, Kananaskis, on 18th July 2009. For those unfamiliar with this species, the red parts are the bracts, the very small, narrow, green parts are the actual flowers. Came across it while I was saving another few folders of images to my external hard drive, so that I could delete them and give myself a bit of desperately-needed free space on my computer. Thanks to Mark Egger, for the ID, Castilleja miniata - much appreciated! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja

"Puccinia monoica is a rust fungus of the genus Puccinia that inhibits flowering in its host plants (those of the Arabis genus) and transforms host behavior in order to facilitate sexual reproduction to pass on its genes. Infection occurs when the fungus sends its throughout the stem of the mustard plant, siphoning off some of the nutrients of its host. However, to reproduce, Puccinia monoica must exchange genes with the Puccinia inside another mustard plant. The fungus sterilizes the plant, preventing it from sending up its own flowers. Instead, the fungus forces the infected plant to turn clusters of its leaves into brilliant "flowers" (pseudoflowers)." From Wikipedia. Photographed (macro) this infected Rock Cress (?) plant at 12-Mile Coulee, Calgary, on 1st May 2009. It's an interesting thing to see and quite attractive.

Came across this photo while I was trying to get a few of my endless images backed up yesterday. These pebbles were bought - you can't remove anything from any park, or at least only if you are breaking the rules. Having had to deal with three different computer problems the last 2-3 weeks, it has scared me enough to make me start on the long, monotonous chore of backing up more of them to my external hard drive. I do this one small folder at a time - I don't have things set up for a complete, automatic back-up of my hard drive.