Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Blue Himalayan Poppy
Western Wood Lily
Great Orange Tip / Hebomoia glaucippe
Always a treat to see
Yellow Penstemon with wildflower bokeh
Wildflowers at Peyto Lake
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Hibiscus beauty
Water Lily
Resting on a window
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Baneberry, white berries
Baneberry, red berries
Alfalfa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
European Skipper
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Succulent beauty
Cracker sp.
Between the cracks
Peony seedpods
Hollyhock
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Let the light shine in
Beauty of a weed
Living on the edge
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
Sea Holly
Artichoke in bloom
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
After our first major snowstorm
Much-needed colour!
Trillium, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
Day 2, yes, another Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, a more typical Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, White Trillium, Rondeau PP
When fall comes after 'winter'
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Weathered door
Powderpuff flower
Day 3, Large-flowered Bellwort / Uvularia grandifl…
Day 3, Daffodil (or Narcissus?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Daffodil (Narcissus?) growing wild, Pt Pele…
Lest We Forget
A much-needed change of colour
Fall colours
Winter in the park
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Delicate hoarfrost
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Dreaming of spring
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
Trillium with a visitor, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches / Dicentra cucullaria, Pt Pele…
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Beauty
Pretty in pink
Trillium
Dragonfly, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Milk Thistle, I believe
Sedge
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Tropical plant, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Dreaming of spring and summer
The beauty of Borage
Plant from the Whaleback
Unidentified tree, Trinidad
A scream from the Asa Wright verandah, Trinidad
Dragonfly at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Dragonfly at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Dragonfly sp., Trinidad
Asystasia gangetica, Trinidad
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Tropical flower, Trinidad - Begonia
The end of an Artichoke
Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Pachystachys coccinea?
In memory of my daughter
The final stage of an Artichoke
Snow-capped
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Aging Echinacea
Memories of colour
Before "winter" arrived
Spider walking on snow
Lest we forget
At the Saskatoon Farm
September flowers
Dragonfly - Black Meadowhawk?
Snow-capped berries
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Lichens on nature trail at KOAC
Goodbye fall, hello winter!
End of the season
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Cosmos beauty
Same kind of flower as yesterday's
Purity
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Gentians in a friend's garden
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Last days before the snow
Sunflower and visitors
Colours
Memories of Waterton - Bear Grass
Rooster, Saskatoon Farm
Back view of an orange Sunflower
Looper Moth sp.
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Horsetail strobilus
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The strobilus contains spores on the fertile stems of a Horsetail. Horsetails always fascinate me and I love to take photos of them. This one is still closed, but they are photogenic at each stage. I will add a previously posted photo in a comment box below, showing an open one. The first of the two photos below shows the Strobilus of a Horsetail, a cone-like structure where the spores are released from. Other stems look like the second photo, which shows a typical sterile stem.
"Equisetum (/ˌɛkwɨˈsiːtəm/; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Equisetum is a "living fossil" as it is the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 30 meters tall. The genus Calamites of the family Calamitaceae, for example, is abundant in coal deposits from the Carboniferous period." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum
There were two walks I wanted to go on yesterday, 20 June 2018 - an afternoon botany walk at Griffith Woods, especially as I have missed most of the walks this session; and a birding walk in the evening in Fish Creek Park. Usually, I don't do two walks on the same day.
Photographed the Great Blue Heron at the river's edge and the bright yellow Gaillardia flower at the Fish Creek Park location. This Horsetail photo was taken at Griffith Woods. After the evening walk, a few of us went to Tim Horton's for coffee and chat. Coffee doesn't usually keep me awake, but I guess I'm not normally drinking it at 10:00 pm! Despite feeling tired out from two walks, I was also 'wired' and it was 6:00 am before i finally fell into bed. An hour later, I was awake, so today is definitely a slow day at home, as it feels like my brain is barely functioning..
"Equisetum (/ˌɛkwɨˈsiːtəm/; horsetail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Equisetum is a "living fossil" as it is the only living genus of the entire class Equisetopsida, which for over one hundred million years was much more diverse and dominated the understory of late Paleozoic forests. Some Equisetopsida were large trees reaching to 30 meters tall. The genus Calamites of the family Calamitaceae, for example, is abundant in coal deposits from the Carboniferous period." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum
There were two walks I wanted to go on yesterday, 20 June 2018 - an afternoon botany walk at Griffith Woods, especially as I have missed most of the walks this session; and a birding walk in the evening in Fish Creek Park. Usually, I don't do two walks on the same day.
Photographed the Great Blue Heron at the river's edge and the bright yellow Gaillardia flower at the Fish Creek Park location. This Horsetail photo was taken at Griffith Woods. After the evening walk, a few of us went to Tim Horton's for coffee and chat. Coffee doesn't usually keep me awake, but I guess I'm not normally drinking it at 10:00 pm! Despite feeling tired out from two walks, I was also 'wired' and it was 6:00 am before i finally fell into bed. An hour later, I was awake, so today is definitely a slow day at home, as it feels like my brain is barely functioning..
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