Catching the light Autumnal Water-Starwort / Callitriche hermaphrodit… Barrier Lake Sitting pretty Red-osier Dogwood / Cornus sericea S*#@ ........! Colours of fall Cladonia Lichen sp. Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita A metallic look Double-crested Cormorants and a Gull Goat's-beard glory Life on a leaf stalk Waterfalls at Elpoca Shrooms White Columbine Mountain Cranberry / Vaccinium vitis-idaea Shield Bug Beauty Silver threads Bird's-nest Fungi by the hundreds Reaching out to the sun Soft-leaf Muhly grass / Muhlenbergia richardsonis Saddle fungus Mushroom magic Against the light Yellow Sweetclover / Melilotus officinalis Earthstar / Geastrum sp. Burrowing Owl Fireweed / Epilobium angustifolium Black Currant Pie, anyone? Invasive beauty Insect casing Hopper on Broadleaf Gumweed / Grindelia squarrosa Tiny world on a leaf Tartarian Honeysuckle /Lonicera tatarica Cicer Milkvetch seedpods One of my favourite flowers Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi… Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale Warbling Vireo Shaggy Mane / Coprinus comatus Stiff Yellow Paintbrush / Castilleja lutescens