The Grassy Knoll

On the Morning of June 19th

a small part of the world changed.

It turns out that it was

a single shooter!

At one with the sky......

Cedar Waxwing

Lucky Loonie

A Mothers Birthday

My Mothers Birthday well spent

June 19th 2014

Grassland Light

A study of lens flare,

I love shooting into the sun!

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail

    Papilio canadensis

                                

Half Moon

Jos. Louis
A Canadian treat!

Evening Grass

Gavia immer Monochrome

Great Northern Loon

Provincial bird of Ontario

The emblem on the lucky "Loonie"

Canada's 1 dollar coin

Grass and Atmosphere

Grass and Atmosphere..

I like to call it Grassmosphere!

Somewhere Down that Crazy River

Memory of Trees

Fresh young Maple leaves

in a soft morning mist.

Sliver

In a sliver of  time

some Moon will shine...

Hyalophora Cecropia

Cecropia Moth

The largest native moth

a member of the giant silk moths

Bleeding Heart Twice.

"No two gardens

are the same.

No two days

are the same

in one garden"

~Hugh Johnson

Alba and the normal pink
Bleeding Heart.

Aquilegia

Columbine

or 

Granny's Bonnet.

Antheraea polyphemus

Polyphemus Moth

 a giant silk moth.

again in the garden centre at work.

Actias luna

Luna Moth

with a wingspan of 4.5 inches

one of the largest moths in North America

this is a female in the garden centre at work

After The Rain

Into each life

some rain must fall.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From the Forest Floor

When a Maple tree falls

the whole forest echoes with it,

for hundreds of Maple keys have lit up

the forest floor.

JE Ted Gardner

June 1st

June 1st

the middle of spring 

ground has warmed, 

 daffodils have bloomed

with so much more to come.

Its the clouds in the sky

and the dirt in my finger nails

that tell me why.