Wild Blue Clematis
Insect on Steven's shirt - some kind of Borer?
Opening Gaillardia flower
Colour for an overcast day
Bright and beautiful
Bee on Tall Larkspur / Delphinium exaltatum
Fungus guttation droplets
Purple/Water Avens / Geum rivale
Wild Licorice?
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
Flower close-up
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Red Baneberry
Flowers at the Saskatoon Farm - Solanum sp.
Yellow Prairie Coneflower / Mexican Hat
Globe Centurea / Centaurea macrocephala with bee
Gazania
Opening Sunflower bud
Sunflower in full bloom
Campion / Silene sp.
Campion
Wild Sunflower sp.
Colour in the garden
Edible King Oyster mushrooms, Akesi Farms
Watched by wooden eyes
Slime mold, Pringle Mt forest walk
Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Pholiota terrestris growing in soil
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Bolete
Gaillardia
Backlit Sunflower
Amanita muscaria
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Puffballs and others growing on a tree stump
Sitting Earthstar / Geoastrum sessile
Highlight of my day - Fly agaric / Amanita muscari…
Shaggy parasol / Macrolepidota rhachodes
Shaggy parasol / Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepi…
Not "The Sickener"
Sunflower, against a pink barn
Orange False Dandelion
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
A summer memory
Amanita muscaria, with insects (mosquitoes?)
Brown Cup & Golden Pluteus / Pluteus chrysophlebiu…
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Garden flower
Colours of fall
Hooded False Morel / Gyromitra infula – poisonous
Puffballs on a rotting log
Honey Mushrooms / Armillaria mellea
Hops / Humulus lupulus
Hot Wings Maple
The sunflower droop
Mold on a fungus?
Fungus
Mushrooms
Mushroom growing on a log
Yellow mushroom
Mushroom cluster
Day 5, wildflowers, King Ranch, Norias Division
Day 5, White Prickly Poppy / Argemone albiflora
Gorgeous succulent flower
Day 4, Silver argiope / Argiope argentata, Bishop…
Day 4, Aloe vera, Bishop City Park, South Texas
THE TICK THAT BIT ME in South Texas! LONE STAR TI…
Day 1, Thistle / pink form of Cirsium horridulum,…
Day 1, Thistle / Cirsium horridulum, southern Texa…
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Dreaming of spring
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Delicate hoarfrost
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Winter in the park
Fall colours
A much-needed change of colour
Lest We Forget
Day 3, Daffodil (Narcissus?) growing wild, Pt Pele…
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Daffodil (or Narcissus?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Large-flowered Bellwort / Uvularia grandifl…
Powderpuff flower
Weathered door
Pumpkin season, kid-style
When fall comes after 'winter'
Day 2, White Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, a more typical Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, yes, another Trillium, Rondeau PP
Trillium, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
Much-needed colour!
After our first major snowstorm
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
Artichoke in bloom
Sea Holly
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Living on the edge
Beauty of a weed
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Hollyhock
Peony seedpods
Between the cracks
Cracker sp.
Succulent beauty
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
European Skipper
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Alfalfa
Baneberry, red berries
Baneberry, white berries
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Invasive Yellow Clematis
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Flowers & trees of southern Texas, 19-31 March 2019
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Day 7, Hong Kong Orchid tree, Estero Llano Grande SP
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PAM, A LITTLE BIT OF BEAUTY SPECIALLY FOR YOU, AFTER YOUR STRESSFUL DAY. I LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY SINGLE UPDATE THAT YOU TAKE THE TROUBLE TO WRITE!! I ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU ARE DOING. KEEPING MY FINGERS CROSSED THAT THE TWO NEW PAIRS OF GLASSES YOU WILL BE GETTING, WILL HELP YOU A LOT. TAKE CARE. BY THE WAY, I KNOW SO MANY PEOPLE HERE WHO HAVE HAD CATARACT SURGERY AND HAVE BEEN DELIGHTED WITH THE RESULTS.
Just a few more days and Smugmug has the mammoth task of transferring every single thing on Flickr to a new server. Hard to imagine, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that the transfer all goes smoothly. There will probably be a few glitches to iron out afterwards, but these will eventually be fixed. Flickr has certainly been just about unusable the last few days! Hoping to get Day 7 of our trip finished before the transfer and maybe even make a start on Day 8. Please bear with me.
The flower of this tree was so beautiful, I decided to edit again the same photo that I have posted previously, to add to my photostream. I've posted a few photos to show what a beautiful park this was to walk in - loved the trees and cacti..
The article, "BBC - Earth: How a weird hybrid plant ended up on the flag of Hong King" makes an interesting read. The flag shows a white flower on a red background.
This tree is a native of the island of Hong Kong, but the true origin of this mysterious plant has only been revealed in recent years. The tree produces no seeds and can only reproduce with human help, by grafting.
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161209-how-a-weird-hybrid-plant...
Posted just a few odds and ends, taken on Day 7 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas. A few interesting things, but not the greatest photos of most of them. So happy to see them all and just happy to get any kind of shots.
We had an early start as usual on Day 7 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019. Leaving our hotel, La Quinta Inn & Suites in Mission, we drove to the Bentsen - Rio Grande Valley State Park / World Birding Centre.
"As part of the World Birding Center, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park is a world-class destination for bird-watching. The Rio Grande Valley hosts one of the most spectacular convergences of birds on earth with more than 525 species documented in this unique place. Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park alone has an impressive list of 358 species recorded within the park’s boundaries. Birders have a chance to see migratory birds during their yearly migrations over the valley including flocks of thousands of hawks from the park’s Hawk Tower in the spring and fall.... Over seven miles of trails offer a variety of opportunities to encounter wildlife inside the park."
tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/bentsen-rio-grande-valley
In the afternoon, we drove roughly 32 miles east to the Estero Llano Grande State Park, arriving there at about 1:00 pm, and spent two and a half hours looking for birds. Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco, is one of nine sites that make up the World Birding Centre in South Texas. It is a 230+ acre refuge. Not many chances to see and photograph birds, but we enjoyed seeing huge cacti in bloom and a few beautiful flowering trees, including the one in this photo. A couple of Lizards and a Skink added interesting variety to our sightings - even a cluster of mushrooms.
Just a few more days and Smugmug has the mammoth task of transferring every single thing on Flickr to a new server. Hard to imagine, and I'll keep my fingers crossed that the transfer all goes smoothly. There will probably be a few glitches to iron out afterwards, but these will eventually be fixed. Flickr has certainly been just about unusable the last few days! Hoping to get Day 7 of our trip finished before the transfer and maybe even make a start on Day 8. Please bear with me.
The flower of this tree was so beautiful, I decided to edit again the same photo that I have posted previously, to add to my photostream. I've posted a few photos to show what a beautiful park this was to walk in - loved the trees and cacti..
The article, "BBC - Earth: How a weird hybrid plant ended up on the flag of Hong King" makes an interesting read. The flag shows a white flower on a red background.
This tree is a native of the island of Hong Kong, but the true origin of this mysterious plant has only been revealed in recent years. The tree produces no seeds and can only reproduce with human help, by grafting.
www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161209-how-a-weird-hybrid-plant...
Posted just a few odds and ends, taken on Day 7 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas. A few interesting things, but not the greatest photos of most of them. So happy to see them all and just happy to get any kind of shots.
We had an early start as usual on Day 7 of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019. Leaving our hotel, La Quinta Inn & Suites in Mission, we drove to the Bentsen - Rio Grande Valley State Park / World Birding Centre.
"As part of the World Birding Center, Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park is a world-class destination for bird-watching. The Rio Grande Valley hosts one of the most spectacular convergences of birds on earth with more than 525 species documented in this unique place. Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park alone has an impressive list of 358 species recorded within the park’s boundaries. Birders have a chance to see migratory birds during their yearly migrations over the valley including flocks of thousands of hawks from the park’s Hawk Tower in the spring and fall.... Over seven miles of trails offer a variety of opportunities to encounter wildlife inside the park."
tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/bentsen-rio-grande-valley
In the afternoon, we drove roughly 32 miles east to the Estero Llano Grande State Park, arriving there at about 1:00 pm, and spent two and a half hours looking for birds. Estero Llano Grande State Park, Weslaco, is one of nine sites that make up the World Birding Centre in South Texas. It is a 230+ acre refuge. Not many chances to see and photograph birds, but we enjoyed seeing huge cacti in bloom and a few beautiful flowering trees, including the one in this photo. A couple of Lizards and a Skink added interesting variety to our sightings - even a cluster of mushrooms.
Janet Brien, Malik Raoulda, Pam J have particularly liked this photo
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DEAREST ANNE ! THANKYOU SO MUCH FOR YOUT KIND WORDS DEAR LADY .
HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE A WHILE YET BEFORE I NEED THE CAT SURGERY ! IT WAS JUST ONE MORE THING IN A BAD YEAR.
I LOVED HONG KONG. I ONLY LIVED THERE BRIEFLY BUT I FELL SO IN LOVE WITH THE PLACE AND THE PEOPLE.
RE FLICKR .. I HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE TRANSFER AND I DOO NOT ENVY THE LOGISTICS OF IT !
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I enjoyed reading your post as well and hope to read all of your entries of this trip. You have a great way of writing, thank you for sharing your adventure with us!
I also wanted to say thank you for coming by to visit my last picture(s) while I was away on my vacation without a chance to reciprocate. It was wonderful to get your response and attention, and meant a lot for me to be able to read comments if I had any internet connection at all. Thanks for making me feel so cared-about! (This is a copy-paste to everyone who commented on my previous picture...I wanted to make sure everyone got a thank-you!) :)
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