https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/album/446593 https://cdn.ipernity.com/p/101/C3/7B/293827.buddy.jpg https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/album/446593 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:46 +0000 Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:46 +0000 https://www.ipernity.com https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466881/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-17,doc-22466881 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:01:21 +0000 2007-08-16T09:07:27-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466881/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/81/22466881.485e23a1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Tufted vetch (Viccia cracca) is a perennial Eurasian plant that was introduced into North America over 140 years ago. Flowers bluish-purple, pea-like, about 12mm (1/2in.) long, often 30 or more crowded together on one side of a long bare stalk. This photo shows just one of these many tiny flowers, distinguishable by its resemblance to a hummingbird! Vicia is the ancient Latin name for Vetch. Also known as Bird Vetch and Cow Vetch.</div> Tufted vetch <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466881/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/81/22466881.485e23a1.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Tufted vetch (Viccia cracca) is a perennial Eurasian plant that was introduced into North America over 140 years ago. Flowers bluish-purple, pea-like, about 12mm (1/2in.) long, often 30 or more crowded together on one side of a long bare stalk. This photo shows just one of these many tiny flowers, distinguishable by its resemblance to a hummingbird! Vicia is the ancient Latin name for Vetch. Also known as Bird Vetch and Cow Vetch.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466871/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-17,doc-22466871 Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:01:21 +0000 2007-08-16T10:28:48-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466871/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/71/22466871.556c3cb7.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Can't remember if this is Common Flax or Wild Blue Flax. I think it is the introduced kind. I know I should write down every detail as I am walking, but somehow it doesn't always happen that way. Doug, perhaps you would point me in the right ID direction - thanks!</div> Common Flax <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466871/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/71/22466871.556c3cb7.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Can't remember if this is Common Flax or Wild Blue Flax. I think it is the introduced kind. I know I should write down every detail as I am walking, but somehow it doesn't always happen that way. Doug, perhaps you would point me in the right ID direction - thanks!</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466879/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-16,doc-22466879 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:14:55 +0000 2007-08-16T11:53:07-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466879/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/79/22466879.aba1ea01.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I was SO happy to see some Crownvetch today on a walk that included the Tom Campbell Hill and a pathway that runs alongside the Calgary Zoo. A friend had found Crownvetch recently and posted a beautiful photo of it - and I knew, then, that I really wanted to see this attractive flower. I suspect that I would have walked straight past it if I had been on my own, as it reminds me of a very open Clover flower. Both belong to the Pea Family, Fabaceae.</div> Crownvetch <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466879/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/79/22466879.aba1ea01.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I was SO happy to see some Crownvetch today on a walk that included the Tom Campbell Hill and a pathway that runs alongside the Calgary Zoo. A friend had found Crownvetch recently and posted a beautiful photo of it - and I knew, then, that I really wanted to see this attractive flower. I suspect that I would have walked straight past it if I had been on my own, as it reminds me of a very open Clover flower. Both belong to the Pea Family, Fabaceae.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466893/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-16,doc-22466893 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:14:55 +0000 2007-07-31T15:44:00-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466893/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/93/22466893.e5a30660.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I'm never sure if I'm looking at White Clover or Alsike Clover. I know it's not Red Clover, because it does not have the three leaves immediately below the flower. An ordinary, everyday flower, but so pretty when seen close up.</div> Clover <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466893/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/93/22466893.e5a30660.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I'm never sure if I'm looking at White Clover or Alsike Clover. I know it's not Red Clover, because it does not have the three leaves immediately below the flower. An ordinary, everyday flower, but so pretty when seen close up.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466901/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-15,doc-22466901 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:15 +0000 2007-08-14T16:47:00-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466901/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/01/22466901.936d96e6.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Came across quite a bit of this plant yesterday afternoon at Shaw's Meadow. It belongs to the Aster family. Young buds often have sticky, white sap on them. Grows June to September.</div> Gumweed <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466901/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/01/22466901.936d96e6.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Came across quite a bit of this plant yesterday afternoon at Shaw's Meadow. It belongs to the Aster family. Young buds often have sticky, white sap on them. Grows June to September.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466905/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-15,doc-22466905 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:14 +0000 2007-08-14T17:22:32-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466905/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/05/22466905.28cc6f50.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I had trouble trying to identify this plant, as it looked so much like Water Smartweed. However, this plant that I came across yesterday was growing on land near the edge of a wetland, has hairy leaves. I eventually found the following information on the Internet and forgot to note which website (it WAS around 3:00 a.m.!!).<br /> <br /> "When the amphibious Water Persicaria (P. amphibium) lifts its short, dense, rose-colored ovoid or oblong club of bloom above ponds and lakes, it is sufficiently protected from crawling pilferers, of course, by the water in which it grows. But suppose the pond dries up and the plant is left on dry ground, what then ? Now, a remarkable thing happens: protective glandular, sticky hairs appear on the epidermis of the leaves and stems, which were perfectly smooth when the flowers grew in water. Such small wing-less insects as might pilfer nectar without bringing to their hostess any pollen from other blossoms are held as fast as on bird-lime. The stem, which sometimes floats, sometimes is immersed, may attain a length of twenty feet ; the rounded, elliptic, petioled leaves may be four inches long or only half that size. From Quebec to New jersey, and westward to the Pacific, the solitary, showy in-florescence, which does well to attain a height of an inch, may be found during July and August. "</div> Marsh Smartweed <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466905/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/05/22466905.28cc6f50.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I had trouble trying to identify this plant, as it looked so much like Water Smartweed. However, this plant that I came across yesterday was growing on land near the edge of a wetland, has hairy leaves. I eventually found the following information on the Internet and forgot to note which website (it WAS around 3:00 a.m.!!).<br /> <br /> "When the amphibious Water Persicaria (P. amphibium) lifts its short, dense, rose-colored ovoid or oblong club of bloom above ponds and lakes, it is sufficiently protected from crawling pilferers, of course, by the water in which it grows. But suppose the pond dries up and the plant is left on dry ground, what then ? Now, a remarkable thing happens: protective glandular, sticky hairs appear on the epidermis of the leaves and stems, which were perfectly smooth when the flowers grew in water. Such small wing-less insects as might pilfer nectar without bringing to their hostess any pollen from other blossoms are held as fast as on bird-lime. The stem, which sometimes floats, sometimes is immersed, may attain a length of twenty feet ; the rounded, elliptic, petioled leaves may be four inches long or only half that size. From Quebec to New jersey, and westward to the Pacific, the solitary, showy in-florescence, which does well to attain a height of an inch, may be found during July and August. "</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466899/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-15,doc-22466899 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:08:15 +0000 2007-08-14T18:03:25-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466899/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/99/22466899.558bb978.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Introduced from Europe and grows along roadsides, waste areas and cultivated fields.</div> Scentless Chamomile <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466899/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/68/99/22466899.558bb978.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Introduced from Europe and grows along roadsides, waste areas and cultivated fields.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466915/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-14,doc-22466915 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:26:08 +0000 2007-08-06T17:41:18-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466915/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/15/22466915.2220ddb8.240.jpg?r2" width="179" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The species name commemorates Michael Bebb (1833-1895), an American naturalist who specialized in willows. This plant grows in wetlands and marshes.</div> Bebb&#039;s Sedge <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466915/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/15/22466915.2220ddb8.240.jpg?r2" width="179" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">The species name commemorates Michael Bebb (1833-1895), an American naturalist who specialized in willows. This plant grows in wetlands and marshes.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466911/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-14,doc-22466911 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:26:06 +0000 2007-07-31T16:56:19-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466911/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/11/22466911.9a2a6d70.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This tiny member of the Buttercup family is widespread in Alberta. Is found on silty mud flats, shallow water, stream banks; lake, pond and river edges; and moist meadows. <br /> <br /> I felt very honoured to be asked if I would give permission for this image to be used on the Harvard University website, ARKive.<br /> <br /> "A vast treasury of wildlife images has been steadily accumulating over the past century, yet no one has known its full extent - or indeed its gaps - and no one has had a comprehensive way of gaining access to it. ARKive will put that right, and it will be an invaluable tool for all concerned with the well-being of the natural world."<br /> Sir David AttenboroughWildscreen Patron<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.arkive.org/seaside-crowfoot/ranunculus-cymbalaria/image-G112151.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.arkive.org/seaside-crowfoot/ranunculus-cymbalaria/ima...</a></div> Seaside Buttercup <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466911/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/11/22466911.9a2a6d70.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="180" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This tiny member of the Buttercup family is widespread in Alberta. Is found on silty mud flats, shallow water, stream banks; lake, pond and river edges; and moist meadows. <br /> <br /> I felt very honoured to be asked if I would give permission for this image to be used on the Harvard University website, ARKive.<br /> <br /> "A vast treasury of wildlife images has been steadily accumulating over the past century, yet no one has known its full extent - or indeed its gaps - and no one has had a comprehensive way of gaining access to it. ARKive will put that right, and it will be an invaluable tool for all concerned with the well-being of the natural world."<br /> Sir David AttenboroughWildscreen Patron<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.arkive.org/seaside-crowfoot/ranunculus-cymbalaria/image-G112151.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.arkive.org/seaside-crowfoot/ranunculus-cymbalaria/ima...</a></div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466923/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-13,doc-22466923 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:14:21 +0000 2007-08-11T16:43:55-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466923/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/23/22466923.aafb6d1d.240.jpg?r2" width="188" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This pretty wildflower is a member of the Aster family. The name "Dotted" refers to the dotted surface of the leaves.</div> Dotted Blazingstar <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466923/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/23/22466923.aafb6d1d.240.jpg?r2" width="188" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This pretty wildflower is a member of the Aster family. The name "Dotted" refers to the dotted surface of the leaves.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466941/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-12,doc-22466941 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:50:41 +0000 2007-08-09T10:34:05-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466941/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/41/22466941.7f8de71f.240.jpg?r2" width="181" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Introduced from Europe as a garden plant, this plant is now an aggressive weed.</div> Butter-and-eggs <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466941/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/41/22466941.7f8de71f.240.jpg?r2" width="181" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Introduced from Europe as a garden plant, this plant is now an aggressive weed.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466951/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-12,doc-22466951 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:05:06 +0000 2007-08-09T10:25:10-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466951/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/51/22466951.f0a1daad.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Not many places in the city where this plant grows, but was lucky enough to see it a few days ago at the Ranchlands natural area.</div> Yellow Paintbrush <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466951/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/51/22466951.f0a1daad.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Not many places in the city where this plant grows, but was lucky enough to see it a few days ago at the Ranchlands natural area.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466943/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-12,doc-22466943 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:05:07 +0000 2007-06-27T15:52:16-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466943/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/43/22466943.5d233690.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Orange Hawkweed is an introduced plant from Europe. It's one of my favourite wildflowers - this spring was the very first time I had ever seen it.</div> Orange Hawkweed <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466943/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/43/22466943.5d233690.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Orange Hawkweed is an introduced plant from Europe. It's one of my favourite wildflowers - this spring was the very first time I had ever seen it.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466953/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-10,doc-22466953 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:37:13 +0000 2007-08-09T10:51:49-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466953/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/53/22466953.deecc25f.240.jpg?r2" width="233" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This plant, introduced from Eurasia, is also called Lesser Burdock, Wild Rhubarb and Beggar's Buttons. Found in pastures, fence rows, roadsides and disturbed sites.</div> Common Burdock <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466953/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/53/22466953.deecc25f.240.jpg?r2" width="233" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This plant, introduced from Eurasia, is also called Lesser Burdock, Wild Rhubarb and Beggar's Buttons. Found in pastures, fence rows, roadsides and disturbed sites.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466965/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-10,doc-22466965 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:37:08 +0000 2007-08-02T12:40:11-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466965/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/65/22466965.05662ec5.240.jpg?r2" width="185" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is an introduced plant from Europe, that grows along roadsides and in waste areas.</div> Dog Mustard <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466965/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/65/22466965.05662ec5.240.jpg?r2" width="185" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This is an introduced plant from Europe, that grows along roadsides and in waste areas.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466975/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-10,doc-22466975 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:34:25 +0000 2007-08-09T10:21:13-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466975/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/75/22466975.2db88253.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">We saw the occasional brilliant red leaf on our walk at the Ranchlands natural area this morning. This one belongs to the Sticky Purple Geranium plant. After the whole month of July of temperatures around 29C and 31C, today was about 10C earlier this morning. It also rained. I returned home absolutely soaked to mid-thigh, with a whole bunch of photos that were blurry thanks greatly to the poor light on this gloomy day. Kind of refreshing, though, to feel almost cold!</div> Fall is on its way <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466975/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/75/22466975.2db88253.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">We saw the occasional brilliant red leaf on our walk at the Ranchlands natural area this morning. This one belongs to the Sticky Purple Geranium plant. After the whole month of July of temperatures around 29C and 31C, today was about 10C earlier this morning. It also rained. I returned home absolutely soaked to mid-thigh, with a whole bunch of photos that were blurry thanks greatly to the poor light on this gloomy day. Kind of refreshing, though, to feel almost cold!</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466977/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-10,doc-22466977 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:34:25 +0000 2007-08-09T20:34:25-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466977/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/77/22466977.13d1e746.240.jpg?r2" width="180" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I'm not sure which kind of Prairie Aster this is, so I will leave it at "Prairie Aster". A common, small plant that produces a display of small white flowers.</div> Prairie Aster <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466977/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/77/22466977.13d1e746.240.jpg?r2" width="180" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I'm not sure which kind of Prairie Aster this is, so I will leave it at "Prairie Aster". A common, small plant that produces a display of small white flowers.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466983/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-08,doc-22466983 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:00:52 +0000 2007-08-08T11:00:52-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466983/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/83/22466983.747b95f4.240.jpg?r2" width="180" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Here and there, I see a blade of grass that has developed this reddish colouring.</div> Tri-coloured <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466983/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/83/22466983.747b95f4.240.jpg?r2" width="180" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">Here and there, I see a blade of grass that has developed this reddish colouring.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466985/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-08,doc-22466985 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:00:49 +0000 2007-08-08T11:00:49-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466985/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/85/22466985.fedab3ab.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I think I've only seen this wildflower once before, so was pleased to see it on a recent walk in Griffith Woods.</div> Birdsfoot Trefoil <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466985/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/85/22466985.fedab3ab.240.jpg?r2" width="240" height="181" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">I think I've only seen this wildflower once before, so was pleased to see it on a recent walk in Griffith Woods.</div> Anne Elliott https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466993/in/album/446593 tag:ipernity.com,2007-08-07,doc-22466993 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:48:39 +0000 2007-08-07T13:48:39-06:00 nobody@ipernity.com (Anne Elliott) <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466993/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/93/22466993.eae33e18.240.jpg?r2" width="183" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This tiny wildflower is a bit difficult to photograph because it is so small. Found it along the edge of a wetland in Glennfield, Fish Creek Park.</div> Northern Willowherb <p class="who"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/home/293827">Anne Elliott</a> has posted:</p><p class="preview"><a href="https://www.ipernity.com/doc/293827/22466993/in/album/446593"><img src="https://cdn.ipernity.com/131/69/93/22466993.eae33e18.240.jpg?r2" width="183" height="240" alt=""/></a></p><div class="description">This tiny wildflower is a bit difficult to photograph because it is so small. Found it along the edge of a wetland in Glennfield, Fish Creek Park.</div> Anne Elliott