Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

The wetland we walked around was beautiful in its own right, not just for its bright yellow water lilies and bullfrogs.  I particularly like...

Frog Habitat I promised some pictures of the frogs we saw Friday at the Flesherton Hills wetland, so here they are.  The ...

Went on an interesting organized walk at Flesherton Hills wetlands yesterday, a place I had never been to.  But I'll be going back...

The new year's tamarack cones are forming just now.  A bit like the spruce I profiled earlier, the young cones are a deep reddish-purple...

I've found several of these fungi recently, in various nearby different locations.  The patterns on the top as well as the pores on the ...

Ok now, all you expert macro photographers out there, don't laugh at these.  Having bought a macro lens, I've started to try and cap...

Back to something more my style - we've had a cool and wet June so far here, another day of rain yesterday, and another misty morning to...