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Heliconia
Cascade of red
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Unknown berries
Christmas Cactus
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White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
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Need colour
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Castor Bean
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Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red
Paper Kite / Idea leuconoe
Unfurling
As the weeks fly by ..
The touch of winter
Eye-catching red
Impressive old barn
What a sight on a cold winter's day
Brightening the landscape
Happy Valentine's Day
Pink - or red?
Little red church near Blackie, Alberta
Happy Easter!
Within the city limits
Need colour? You got it!
Hybrid Poplar
Cardinal's Guard / Pachystachys coccinea
Glowing berries
Red Powder Puff
Topped with snow
Eye-catching
Centre ... or Scenter
Determined to be seen
Discovered at 1:00 in the morning
Red beauty
The row of five
Gather around the flame
Silver Maple
Two-lips
Ruby red
Red and more red
Miss Scarlet
Bokeh
At the heart of a Bromeliad
Glowing red
Beacon of colour
Diagonal
Rose hips
Fairybells fruit
Roseroot
Paintbrush
I know you're there
Pine Grosbeak
A false sense of warmth
Beautiful Red Baneberry / Actaea rubra
Happy Chinese New Year
One day less till spring and summer
Two-spotted Ladybug with a difference
A covering of snowflakes
The famous five
Christmas Smarties
Glowing warmth
The joy of RED
Fire and ice
Sara / Heliconius sara
Colours of fall
Winner of the popularity contest
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Mock Strawberry / Potentilla indica
Sausage Tree flower / Kigelia africana
Insect galls on a Willow leaf
Just for the record
Bunchberry berries - fall is on its way
Cherry-faced Meadowhawk
Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk berry / Streptopus a…
Water Lily
Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata
A splash of colour
Canadian Mountie - a friendly smile
Star-flowered Solomon's-seal
Roseroot in flower
Back to needing colour
Tropical scarlet
Last summer
Egyptian Star Cluster
Breathtaking beauty
Nothing like a red barn in winter
Poultry barn
Carnivorous Sundew
Rest in peace, my brother, John
I'm hungry and waiting ...
Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Rainbow of a smaller kind
Lighting up the darkness
I guess we do have SOME red : )
Highbush Cranberry / Viburnum trilobum
Round and round ...
The queen of fall colour
It's all about RED
Poppy red
Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi…
Sticky fingers
Dew on Sundew
Sticky False Asphodel seedpods / Tofieldia glutino…
Hanging on to youth
Unfurling
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Gaillardia
The power of red
A splash of red
Red on green
Two red beauties
Clash of colours
Framed with green
Poplar catkins
Easter Cactus
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Lucky Ladybug - this one's for you, Doug!
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They always say that Ladybugs bring you luck - so this one is for good friend, Doug (dougwaylett on Flickr), whom I have known the last few years through botany (wildflowers, also fungi) and, several years ago, birding. He collapsed yesterday and was in the Trauma Unit. Later, he was moved to Intensive Care. I have not yet heard any further update today (it's 10:30 a.m.). Hoping you had a restful, uneventful night, Doug - everyone's thoughts are with you, and with Flo (Doug's wife).
Found this tiny Two-spotted Ladybug (Adalia bipunctata) in my house the other day and photographed it on the fluffy centre of a large Protea flower that has been in my kitchen for two or three weeks, waiting to be photographed. Now it has lost all its colour and has dried out, but at least gave me a different kind of image here : ) The Two-spotted Ladybug is smaller than the more common Seven-spotted Ladybug and is one of our native Ladybugs.
"Adalia bipunctata, commonly known as the two-spot ladybird, two-spotted ladybug or two-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae that is found throughout the holarctic region. It is very common in western and central Europe and North America. It is used as a biological control agent ..... The most familiar form of the two-spot ladybird beetle is the red one with the two black spots. However, there also exists a black form with red spots on it. In addition, there are intermediate forms, but they occur only rarely in nature."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalia_bipunctata
UPDATE ON DOUG: it is with tremendous sadness that I have to let people know that Doug passed away. Apparently, he had just given a talk on Slime Molds in the herbarium at the U of C yesterday and was looking at some lichens, when he had a massive heart attack. Flo, I am so, so sorry.
Found this tiny Two-spotted Ladybug (Adalia bipunctata) in my house the other day and photographed it on the fluffy centre of a large Protea flower that has been in my kitchen for two or three weeks, waiting to be photographed. Now it has lost all its colour and has dried out, but at least gave me a different kind of image here : ) The Two-spotted Ladybug is smaller than the more common Seven-spotted Ladybug and is one of our native Ladybugs.
"Adalia bipunctata, commonly known as the two-spot ladybird, two-spotted ladybug or two-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae that is found throughout the holarctic region. It is very common in western and central Europe and North America. It is used as a biological control agent ..... The most familiar form of the two-spot ladybird beetle is the red one with the two black spots. However, there also exists a black form with red spots on it. In addition, there are intermediate forms, but they occur only rarely in nature."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalia_bipunctata
UPDATE ON DOUG: it is with tremendous sadness that I have to let people know that Doug passed away. Apparently, he had just given a talk on Slime Molds in the herbarium at the U of C yesterday and was looking at some lichens, when he had a massive heart attack. Flo, I am so, so sorry.
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