Mountain Ash berries Forest treasures ... Pholiota squarrosa Shapeless fungi Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans Crested Wheatgrass / Agropyron cristatum Changing colour ready for the winter Hibiscus Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans Poppy seedpod Halloween colour Yellow False Dandelion seedhead Stinkhorns from 2012 Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa One of my favourite flowers to photograph Elegance It tickles! Peking Cotoneaster / Cotoneaster acutifolia Harebell / Campanula rotundifolia Leopard Lacewing / Cethosia cyane Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata Up close and personal Deep pink Peony Lest we forget Brugmansia or Datura? Wonder what she's thinking Gas Plant / Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus' Painted Daisy / Chrysanthemum coccineum Canada Violet / Viola canadensis Mullein / Verbascum thapsus Tree Swallow iridescence Mallard female Snow with a touch of hoar frost Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa The beauty of old age Raven, Yellowstone National Park Vibrant colour to warm us all up Diamond-studded Ruffed Grouse - from my archives Cabbage White butterfly Beetle necklace American Three-toed Woodpecker Golden Himalayan Blue Poppy Time to reveal Datura Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea Sparkling in the sunlight Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae Well, hello there Elegant beauty Cornflower Fancy 'Cat's Cradle' Three-toed Woodpecker Christmas colours in July Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus Lily macro The Story of Life, Tyrrell Museum Ready to trap an unwary insect A toothy smile Keeper of the farmyard Another day closer to spring Hoping for food Flat Topped Coral / Clavariadelphus truncatus Unidentified flower, Seebe, Alberta - Echium vulga… Ready to unfurl Unidentified plant at Cameron Lake, Waterton Coat of many colours Beetle on Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus From the archives A patch of polypore Tall Larkspur / Delphinium glaucum European Skipper on Fleabane Beauty at the centre Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea Umbulate Hawkweed Fungi family Butterfly eggs Komodo Dragon Pearly everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea For those who have suffered recent loss Owl butterfly / Caligo sp. Rose hip species Puffballs on a tree stump Showy Aster / Aster conspicuus, rarely seen in blo… A welcome cluster Fringed Heartwort / Ricciocarpos natans liverwort,… Releasing light Seeds of Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa European Skipper on wild Bergamot Darner dragonfly sp. Black Henbane seedpods Tiger Longwing butterfly / Heliconius hecale Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus / Parnassia fimbriata Wood grain, fungus and Harvestman Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii Macro puffballs Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male An ornamental grass One of few Bees need our help! Growing on a fallen leaf Blue and Brown Clipper / Parthenos sylvia Like a little flower Coffee Bean tree / Coffea Mature Amanita muscaria, I believe? Indian Clock Vine / Thunbergia mysorensis Cheery bokeh - Salvia sp.? Beginning to crack Sharp to the touch A splash of red Sunflower beauty Reaching for the sun Tiger Longwing butterfly / Heliconius hecale Pale grey spider on Common Tansy seedheads A light shines within Reminds me of bacon : ) Zonal Geranium, Survivor Pink Batik Growing through leaf litter Groundsel Common Flax Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata European Skippers on Creeping Thistle Roll up the rim False Hellebore / Veratrum viride