Flowers
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Cotton Eye Candy
From last night's drive, a favourite little pond this time of year, surrounded by Cotton Grass.
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Catkin and Caterpillar
Tiny caterpillar on Arctic Willow catkin.
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Bloomin’ saxifrage
Spring is here, the Purple Saxifrage are starting to bloom. Not a particularly good photo technically wise, but here it is nonetheless.
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Lion’s Teeth
I remember being a little startled when I first saw a Dandelion up here. There isn't, after all, a lawn to speak of within hundreds of kilometres of here. I was even more surprised to learn that the Dandelion species that are up here probably are not one of the common introduced species seen in
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Torpor
Last night, I sat marveling at the scene before me. Stretched out on a steep hill, lazily picking blueberries while Hilary sat beside me, eating the blueberries I was picking and nattering away incessantly. Below was Marcil Lake and beyond that Adam's Sound. There was barely a breath of wind, and in the late evening
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Large-flowered Wintergreen redux
While out blueberry picking this weekend, I discovered another, larger, patch of Large-flowered Wintergreen. The habitat appears to be quite different, the common denominator would be a large snow cover in the winter. At any rate, here are a couple of rather nice (I think anyway) photos of a small patch of them. And because
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Nodding Saxifrage
Just above the high tide mark on the beach I was walking today I found a few scattered Nodding Saxifrage (Saxifraga cernua). The pictures don't do it justice but I wanted to show this flower for, like Viviperous Knotweed, Nodding Saxifrage has a second reproductive strategy in addition to seeds. Nodding Saxifrage also propagates itself