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Fall fungus gallery

Posted on October 11, 2012 by
Coral fungus, Ramaria sp.

This gallery contains 8 photos.

A walk in the woods this time of year will turn up a vast array of mushrooms and other fungi. Here are just a few of the more photogenic specimens we spotted on a walk near the family cottage on … Continue reading →

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Too much of spring

Posted on April 11, 2012 by

This frost-damaged magnolia is in the Japanese garden at University of Guelph Arboretum.

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Weekend retreat

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

I retreated to the cottage for the weekend. Sunday morning I photographed these three butterfly species within five minutes and five paces along the road. I couldn’t see the jewellike Blackburnian warbler in the tall hemlock overhead, but heard his … Continue reading →

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Arboretum spring walk

Posted on April 30, 2011 by

On Easter Monday my partner and I went for a stroll at University of Guelph Arboretum. Nowhere is resurrection evident as in gardens and woods, where buds swell on stark branches, and glorious bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) erupts magically from dead … Continue reading →

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Tree bark gallery

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

This winter I got in the habit of feeling tree bark. One weekend on a stroll through cedar woods along the Grand River, I discovered the bark of these trees is extremely soft to the touch and not especially cold, … Continue reading →

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Fern frost gallery

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

It’s too bad we have to worry about energy efficiency. As new windows replace old ones in our homes, fern frost is becoming a lost memory. Fern frost is the stuff that forms on glass when humid air inside meets … Continue reading →

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