Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: native to North America

Another day of snow today, 10 October 2016. Needed something bright and cheery to post and thought I'd add this pumpkin that I photographed a few weeks ago. Our temperature is -2C (windchill -6C) and tomorrow morning, it's forecast to be -7C (windchill -11C). Looks like we should be having sunshine the next few days, though, which makes all the difference. On 21 September 2016, I left home in sunshine, but by the time I reached my destination south of the city, at the Saskatoon Farm, it was overcast and dreary. This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers great food - I had a delicious meal of quiche and sweet potato fries. www.saskatoonfarm.com/

This is one of the Wild Turkeys that are free to roam the Calgary Zoo. If you are lucky, you might find them wandering along the path, as I was, on 3rd February 2009. Taken with the very first model of Panasonic I bought. I have seen these birds in the wild a couple of times, way south of Calgary a few years ago, but couldn't get close photos like this.

A blurry shot, unfortunately, of one of about eight beautiful Elk that were grazing near the main highway at Harvey Heights, Canmore, Banff National Park. Seen early in the morning in poor light when we were driving to our area for the Banff/Canmore Bird Count on December 17th. I don't usually see Elk, so wanted to add this photo to my Wild Animals of Alberta set. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk