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Stephen Leacock Museum National Historic Site or the Leacock Museum), Old Brewery Bay, Orillia, Ontario. The museum is quite cool. Well worth the visit. Photo composed Aug 4, 2017. #stephenleacock #lecockmuseum #stephenleacocknationalhistoricsite

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata): a shrub that is well suited to wet, poorly drained soils. It berries are so vivid! You can almost see it across a lake. Cemetery Lake, Burwash prison farm, south of Sudbury, Ontario, Oct 3/25 #nativeshrub #burwashontario

Anemone parviflora, also known as the small-flowered anemone, above the treeline, Montana Mountain, Carcross, Yukon Canada, June 14/23.

#hiking #yukon #nativewildflower

View over Lake Superior on June 11/25 at Jackfish, Ontario, Canada, a ghost town now.

#lakesuperior

Morning fog along the shore of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, June 10/25. A good place to look at the geology and some disjunct Arctic - alpine plants. Video at: youtu.be/BKRldtGm1d4

Morning light on the garden, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Aug 14/25

#morninglight #garden

I am working on another YouTube video (Rambles With Robin and Ruby): scenery and simple geological controls on plants, Marathon, Ontario, Canada, along the Lake Superior coast. It is a moody lake - at least as seen from the lake shore trail system. July 9/25

#lakesuperior #marathon #summermood

Another red morning on planet Mars, Ottawa, Ontario, Aug 5/25.

#forestfiresmoke #sunrise

White meadowsweet - Spiraea alba, I think - at sunset, Esker Lakes Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 26/25.

#sunset #nativeplant #summer

Window with a view. Ontario, Canada, July 24/25

#sunset #summerlake

Forest in transition, Cobalt, Ontario, July 22/25

#foresttransition #forest

Beautiful morning, July 22/25, North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

#morning #river #ontariocanada

Setting Sun over Lake Nipissing, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, July 21/25

#water #sunset

Mink Creek waterfall, west of Marathon, Ontario, Canada, June 9/25.

Mink Creek waterfall, west of Marathon, Ontario, Canada, June 9/25.

#waterfall #minkcreekwaterfall #ontariotourism

YouTube video by Rambles With Robin and Ruby S25E01 Arctic Alpine Disjunct Plants Smokey Point, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario

My most recent YouTube video is now live. I share my search for Arctic - alpine disjunct plants along the cold Lake Superior shore, Ontario, Canada: youtu.be/c3r9vg339wg

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), certainly not rare, but it is an important food for the monarch butterfly caterpillar. Campbellford lock #14, July 5/25.

#nativewildflower

Painting entitled Red Landscape Wheel - Forest Fire on display at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario. The artist is John Abrams, Photo composed June 3/25. A fitting painting given the many forest fires that affected North America in spring 2025.

Striped coralroot (Corallorhiza striata), a native orchid, is still in bloom at Rene Brunelle Provincial Park. I read that it obtains its nutrients from soil fungi (share.google/lhTs2sjlDDbH...). Photo composed in a very buggy Rene Brunelle Provincial Park, June 20/25.

#wildflower #nativeorchid

Twin flower (Linnaea borealis) is a small native plant that is common in the cool boreal forest (and other habitats). It is in full bloom now in the Geraldton, Ontario, Canada area, June 19/25.

#wildflower

Butterworth (Pinguicula vulgaris), left, traps insects on its sticky leaves. Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), right traps insects on the sticky appendages on its leaves. Both plants use insects to supplement their needs.

Rocky shore of Lake Superior, Canada, June 12/25.

#wildflowers

Certainly not rare, but blue-bead lily (Clintonia borealis) is just starting to bloom in the boreal forest north of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, June 9/25

#wildflower

Rock harlequin (Capnoides sempervirens), also known as pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America, evening light, Marathon area, close to Lake Superior, Canada, June 7/25

#wildflower

Saw this single pink lady's slipper orchid in the campground at Chutes Provincial Park, Ontario on June 4/25. That it has survived the human activity associated with campground areas amazes me.

#wildorchid

Tranquility this morning, June 2/25.

#tranquility

Starflower (Lysimachia borealis) is a common boreal forest plant and it is in full bloom in the Lake Nipissing area, Ontario, Canada, June 1/25

#wildflower

Yellow lady's slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum), growing in an open fissure in limestone barrens, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, May 29/11. While there are always exceptions, the vast majority of Cypripedium parviflorum grow in areas dominated by limestone rock or alkaline drainage.

Pink lady's slipper, (Cypripedium acaule), a native orchid, growing on sandy soil soil in an open coniferous forest. This orchid prefers acidic soil - or said alternatively, substrate that is not rich in calcium carbonate.

#wildflower #orchid

Two leaved toothwort (Cardamine diphylla). This is a rescue plant, recovered from a road extension area in the bush. After two years in the backyard garden, it has spread and is flowering well. May 10/25 photo

#wildflower

A photo composed on this date, May 7, but back in the year 2022: morning light on yellow trout lily (Erythronium americanum) on the trail system in Ottawa, Canada, area.

#wildflowers #springephemeral

Interesting light this evening after an intense thunder storm, just at sunset. April 29/25. Ottawa, Canada.

#light #sunset