Mountain Bluebirds have no blue pigment
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
Colours made for each other
A serious pose
Hepatica
Yesterday's lucky encounter
Camouflaged House Sparrow at cavity
Hanging on to the old
Ring-necked Pheasant hoping to attract a mate
Catkins - a sure sign of spring
Fine feathers of a female Mallard
Petunia
Hadada Ibis / Bostrychia hagedash
Bright and cheery
Why did the Pheasant cross the road?
Mountain Bluebird
My first sighting of the season
Raindrops on the back of a Canada Goose
Sweet equine faces
Siberian Squill
Balsam Poplar catkins
Showing off his fine feathers
Food for his babies
Delicate Iris
Pileated Woodpecker female
Pink Hellebore
Candy-striped Tulip
Physoclaina orientalis
An over-the-shoulder glance
Hoverfly on European Pasque Flower
Art of nature
Beauty of spring
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Sharp-tailed Grouse female
Green caterpillar on Balsamroot
Elephant Ears / Bergenia cordifolia
Hellebore beauty
Backlit beauties
Purple Rain
Indian Breadroot
After the rain
Hepatica
Sharp-tailed Grouse in the early morning sun
Early Cinquefoil
Snake's Head Fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
A bird of many colours
Colour
Periwinkle / Vinca minor
The joy of spring
Fancy plumage
Canada Goose
Red Baneberry
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Finely iridescent
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
A little fungi family
Striped Coralroot / Corallorhiza striata
Flowers of spring
The purity of white
Herper friend with Wood Frog (and fly)
Made my day : )
Gaillardia on red
Beauty lasts
Tree Swallow from the archives
Tangled
A bird in the hand is worth many in the bush
Delicate Damselfly
Great Gray Owl - breathtaking
Floral beauty
Passing the time
Built with love
Popular with the Aphids
Remembering a winter day
'Hiding' in the grass
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Siberian Squill
Datura flower?
Blink .... and spring will be here
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
Springtime colour
A few little wrigglers
Smiling in the snow
Poppy art
Downy Woodpecker
Common Redpoll / Carduelis flammea
Dianthus sp.
Embracing the sun
European Pasque Flower / Pulsatilla vulgaris
One day closer to spring
Primula denticulata / Drumstick Primula
Vole brains for her afternoon snack
Vibrant
Busy little bee
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
A sweet face
Carnivorous Sundew
Remembering the warmth of summer
Red-sided Garter Snake scales
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Pine Grosbeak in pretty light
Get well, Rachel
Hoping for food
Another day closer to spring
Keeper of the farmyard
A toothy smile
Ready to trap an unwary insect
The Story of Life, Tyrrell Museum
Lily macro
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Christmas colours in July
Three-toed Woodpecker
Fancy 'Cat's Cradle'
Cornflower
Elegant beauty
Well, hello there
Pink or Showy lady's-slipper / Cypripedium reginae
Sparkling in the sunlight
Giant Scabius / Cephalaria gigantea
Datura
Time to reveal
Himalayan Blue Poppy
Golden
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Spider on Strawflower
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I'm always delighted to see a Straw Flower (Strawflower), of any colour. Just fascinated by how perfect they often are when I see them. Love their paper or silk-like "petals", though actually the petals aren’t true petals at all, but in fact are modified leaves called bracts, that come in many colours, including yellow, orange, cream, pink, white, and purple.
Photographed at the Reader Rock Garden on 29 August 2013.
"Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerochrysum_bracteatum
Photographed at the Reader Rock Garden on 29 August 2013.
"Xerochrysum bracteatum, commonly known as the golden everlasting or strawflower, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae native to Australia." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerochrysum_bracteatum
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