Alkali Cordgrass / Spartina gracilis
Sarrail Falls, Kananaskis Lakes
Yellow Heather / Phyllodoce glanduliflora
McDougall Memorial United Church
Sara / Heliconius sara
A great pick-me-up
This way and that
Young Pine Grosbeak
That focussed look
Promise of spring
The color purple
Orange and yellow
Beautiful evening light
Beauty and beast
Caught between seasons
Pretty but poisonous
An orange glow
A little under the weather
Watching the world go by
Frilled Lizard
End of the season
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea
Bishop's-cap
Still waiting ..
Wandering Daisy, Erigeron peregrinus
Asparagus
One-flowered Wintergreen
Campion
Golden Sedge
Blazingstar
Orange-crowned Warbler
Rough-legged Hawk
An old friend
Golden Eagle
The demise of a Meadow Vole
Into the great wide open
Giving me the look
Doing what comes naturally
Do you mind?
Baby Burrowing Owl
Camera shy
Little yellow mushroom
Coprinus
Alberta
Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata
Canadian Mountie - a friendly smile
Down at the Indian Village
Takakkaw Falls, Yoho National Park
Northern Flicker / Colaptes auratus
Need colour in your life?
Porcupine tracks in the snow
Patterns in nature
The melt
Autumn Crocuses
Winter is still hanging around
Sea Holly
Puccinia monoica, Rust Fungus
A handsome baby boy
Don't play with your food
Pretty yellow bells
Pileated Woodpecker / Dryocopus pileatus
Shaggy Manes
Amur Maple
Standing tall
Remembering Canola
Long-eared Owl
Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda
Not a fungus, or a bird, or a flower ...
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Northern Bedstraw
Paintbrush
Tiger Beetle
(Con)temporary
Just a little one
Purple elegance
Lichens at Marston Creek
Marston Creek
Morel
Last year's owlet
Dutchman's Pipe
Red-winged Blackbird
Evening Grosbeak
Yellow Pondlily
Patiently waiting for spring
On a rural backroad
Shades of green
Need a coffee?
Lively
Spectacled Owl
Prairie drama
The famous five
They're baaack ...
Great Horned Owl
Little red barn
Pine Grosbeak
Delicate bokeh
Yellow beauties
In the dark forest
Fall colours in South Glenmore Park
Climacium dendroides moss
Those were the days
Prickly Lettuce
Don't get excited - an old image, LOL!
I'm so beautiful
Just watching the world go by
A sprinkling of mushrooms
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Indian Paintbrush / Castilleja rhexiifolia
A pretty shade of pink caught my eye just as I was about to enter the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park, on August 25th. Many people are perhaps more familiar with the bright red Indian Paintbrush, but we get a huge variation in colour of this species. To those who are not familiar with Indian Paintbrush, the actual flowers are the small green parts, while the pink parts are the bracts. Thanks to Mark Egger for the ID, Castilleja rhexiifolia - much appreciated, as always!
"Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in Europe. These plants are classified in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae (following major rearrangements of the order Lamiales starting around 2001; sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the Scrophulariaceae). They are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. The generic name honours Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja
Received an e-mail from my youngest daughter very early this morning, letting me know that she was back home after her 6-day trip to Savanna, Georgia, this past week. "As for the hurricane (Irene), we got a bit of rain the one evening, a quick downpour, and the waves were bigger than usual on one of the islands, but it was nothing. No evacuations. As Georgia is further west than the other states on the eastern seaboard, it's further from the gulf stream, which the hurricane was following. So, really hardly anything hit us."
"Castilleja, commonly known as Indian paintbrush or Prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in Europe. These plants are classified in the broomrape family, Orobanchaceae (following major rearrangements of the order Lamiales starting around 2001; sources which do not follow these reclassifications may place them in the Scrophulariaceae). They are hemiparasitic on the roots of grasses and forbs. The generic name honours Spanish botanist Domingo Castillejo."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja
Received an e-mail from my youngest daughter very early this morning, letting me know that she was back home after her 6-day trip to Savanna, Georgia, this past week. "As for the hurricane (Irene), we got a bit of rain the one evening, a quick downpour, and the waves were bigger than usual on one of the islands, but it was nothing. No evacuations. As Georgia is further west than the other states on the eastern seaboard, it's further from the gulf stream, which the hurricane was following. So, really hardly anything hit us."
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