Summer Iris display
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Lily macro
Another day closer to spring
Get well, Rachel
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Remembering the warmth of summer
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Busy little bee
Vibrant
Primula denticulata / Drumstick Primula
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
Embracing the sun
Dianthus sp.
Delicate colours of summer
Poppy art
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Springtime colour
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
02 Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Another day closer
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Datura flower?
A little corner of Reader Rock Garden
Siberian Squill
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Tropical - cultivar of Tillandsia ionantha?
Popular with the Aphids
Floral beauty
Pink Sundae / Salvia viridis
Delicate Damselfly
Beauty lasts
Spider on Strawflower
A touch of Fireweed
Window box at Reader Rock Garden
Giant Scabius with purple bokeh
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
Colours made for each other
Hepatica
Hanging on to the old
Beehive Ginger / Zingiber spectabile
Petunia
Bright and cheery
My first sighting of the season
Siberian Squill
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Delicate Iris
Canada Wild Ginger / Asarum canadense
Pink Hellebore
Candy-striped Tulip
Physoclaina orientalis
Physoclaina orientalis
Hoverfly on European Pasque Flower
Art of nature
Beauty of spring
Golden Bean / Thermopsis rhombifolia
Green caterpillar on Balsamroot
Elephant Ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Hellebore beauty
Backlit beauties
Cornflower
Elegant beauty
Face to the sun
Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae
Sparkling in the sunlight
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Datura
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Time to reveal
Someone just couldn't resist : )
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Golden
Beetle necklace
Orange Hawkweed
Vibrant colour to warm us all up
The beauty of old age
Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
Colour to warm the heart and soul
Mullein / Verbascum thapsus
Canada Violet / Viola canadensis
Painted Daisy / Chrysanthemum coccineum
Gas Plant / Dictamnus albus 'Purpureus'
Moving into fall
Overflowing with colour
Brugmansia or Datura?
Lest we forget
Delicate Pinedrops / Pterospora andromedea
Deep pink Peony
Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata
Harebell / Campanula rotundifolia
Peking Cotoneaster / Cotoneaster acutifolia
It tickles!
Elegance
One of my favourite flowers to photograph
Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Yellow False Dandelion seedhead
Poppy seedpod
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Hibiscus
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Always breathtakingly beautiful
Moss-rose, Happy Hour Mix / Portulaca grandiflora
Unidentified flower, Seebe, Alberta - Echium vulga…
Ready to unfurl
Unidentified plant at Cameron Lake, Waterton
Beetle on Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus
Tall Larkspur / Delphinium glaucum
European Skipper on Fleabane
Beauty at the centre
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea
A gorgeous splash of colour
Umbulate Hawkweed
Prince's Pine / Chimaphila umbellata
Pearly everlasting / Anaphalis margaritacea
For those who have suffered recent loss
Rose hip species
Showy Aster / Aster conspicuus, rarely seen in blo…
Releasing light
Sunflowers and a red barn
European Skipper on wild Bergamot
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Fancy 'Cat's Cradle'
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Almost called this "Oh what a tangled web we weave" (quote by Sir Walter Scott).
Cat's cradle is a string game you may remember from childhood. It requires two people to pass the string back and forth to make various string shapes. Cat's Cradle instructions can be found at the following two links:
youtu.be/CAZhx5PKgl4
www.wikihow.com/Play-The-Cat's-Cradle-Game
After a volunteer shift on 23 July 2014, I wasn't too far away from the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area, where I was finally going to go on a botany walk. Having been to this location several times before, I knew it was a short, easy, flat trail, and that I could go as far as I wanted and then turn back early, which is what I did. I had missed pretty well all the botany and birding walks the previous few months, which was quite depressing. The main thing I wanted to see were these Nodding / Musk Thistles, as they are my favourite species of Thistle. They are called a "weed", but I love to see them. The sun was unfortunately in the wrong direction, so I was only able to get a couple of OK shots, but better than nothing. This flower head, past its prime, had quite a fancy tangle of spider web over it.
Its name, Nodding Thistle, comes from the fact that the flower heads commonly droop to a 90° to 120° angle from the stem when mature. Here in Alberta, this species is a noxious weed - but a beautiful one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carduus_nutans
With a couple of hours to "kill", I had spent them at the Reader Rock Garden, which was just a few minutes' drive away from the evening botany walk location.
Cat's cradle is a string game you may remember from childhood. It requires two people to pass the string back and forth to make various string shapes. Cat's Cradle instructions can be found at the following two links:
youtu.be/CAZhx5PKgl4
www.wikihow.com/Play-The-Cat's-Cradle-Game
After a volunteer shift on 23 July 2014, I wasn't too far away from the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area, where I was finally going to go on a botany walk. Having been to this location several times before, I knew it was a short, easy, flat trail, and that I could go as far as I wanted and then turn back early, which is what I did. I had missed pretty well all the botany and birding walks the previous few months, which was quite depressing. The main thing I wanted to see were these Nodding / Musk Thistles, as they are my favourite species of Thistle. They are called a "weed", but I love to see them. The sun was unfortunately in the wrong direction, so I was only able to get a couple of OK shots, but better than nothing. This flower head, past its prime, had quite a fancy tangle of spider web over it.
Its name, Nodding Thistle, comes from the fact that the flower heads commonly droop to a 90° to 120° angle from the stem when mature. Here in Alberta, this species is a noxious weed - but a beautiful one.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carduus_nutans
With a couple of hours to "kill", I had spent them at the Reader Rock Garden, which was just a few minutes' drive away from the evening botany walk location.
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