What I told myself was to be a slower month turned into a very busy month - sixteen different shoots. Each shoot had something that caught my eye and needed to be photographed - not all will be shared here😊
All the PhotoStories are linked here
One particular juvenile heron at Sawmill Ponds held my attention for 40 minutes or so. It paid no attention to me as I sat 10-15 feet away from it and then it moved even closer. A very much precised video is linked below.
While photographing some grass at Mud Lake, my eye spotted a small white insect. Turned out to be a terminal flatheaded mayfly. Mayflies I have seen, but never one like this
White trilliums, along with their red counterparts, gradually fade away when finished blooming and have a nondescript seed pod. After seeing a photo post on the web of a painted trillium's seed pod I had to find one. I did at Bell High School woods! It was much more vibrant and stood tall and proud, unlike the white variety on the right.
While on an urban walk behind Parliament Hill, the rehabilitation work on what was an industrial looking building (the heating plant for many of the downtown buildings) certainly caught my attention. A "curtain" was supposed to represent the cliff side where the plant is located and what looks like meeting rooms have been incorporated into the new areas.
August brings the Indian pipe(stems) to Mer Bleue's "Snowman" Trail. I first saw them at a cottage near Barry's Bay about 50 years ago. They catch my eye every year. I used to think they were mushrooms, but they are perennials flowers that don't use chlorophyl.
A few individual favs from the month
Petrie Island sunrise and floating feather
Getting down low and close to a mallard duck family at Mud Lake. Plus a slightly out of focus cedar waxwing with a raccoon mask
Dock spider, about 1" body length, and her egg mass at a cottage in Quebec
Eye to eye with a Parc Omega cinnamon bear
With all the rain we have had, the crop of mushrooms have appeared earlier than usual, and got me excited.... A selection of my excitement.
