A walk in the Lanark woods in early July unexpected produced some eye catching mushrooms and one of my favourite flowers - Indian Pipe
A female white-tailed deer feeding next to bridge at Mud Lake is eye catching enough, but she was there at high noon. Deer normally rest/hide during the day and feed at sunrise/sunset. While very alert to our presence on the bridge, she came within 20 feet of us.
At Colonnade Ponds a kingbird family had fledged. The parents were still feeding them, but they didn't always stay quite close. I managed to catch two of the four juveniles on a branch down in the weeds
I was surprised by a great blue heron as I walked the path above the river at Billings Bridge. I was looking for wood ducks and was startled to see the heron standing there straight and proud. He didn't object to my being there. He seemed to be very interested in something in the scrub on the retaining wall
Queen Anne's Lace often has a single dark purple tiny blossom within its centre. At Sawmill Creek a few of them with more than a single purple dot caught my eye. Including a few with the centre purple blooms above the white blossoms.
There is a section of trail at Mer Bleue with a 50 yard stretch that has many many Indian pipes each year. The are a perennial flower that is often mistaken for a mushroom as it lacks chlorophyll. This year is not going to prove disappointing as well over 50 plants (at least) are starting to grow.
Returning from Kemptville via the back roads, a cow licking a black object caught my eye. Turning the car around and looking more closely it was a mother herford licking a newborn calf. The farmer said the calf was born 15 minutes before I arrived.
Completely out of context with my usual photography, but a "decorated" Tesla caught my eye in the Parc Omega store/restaurant parking lot.
Click on the button below to be taken to the PhotoStories website for the stories containing the above photos, and more