Sunshine Imaginings Photography: Spring 2010

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Spring 2010

Rowena and I enjoyed many day long walks in the City Forest. New leash ordinances kept us on the rougher trails, but that wasn't a bad thing. We very rarely saw another dog (maybe 2 on the rough trails all summer) and rarely any people either. There was the occasional mountain biker. What we found was plentiful star flowers, blue bead lilies, bunch berries, lady's slippers and trillium to fill the whole forest. There were some flowers that were fairly new to my brain this year too. The raven family has grown into a shiney flock. My season ended with two ravens playing in the sky.

Bittersweet was the ending of our summer of forest walks. In July Rowena and I went to Saxl park for some photos and fun and Rosie was attacked quite viciously by another dog. This did scar her (emotionally) as it was just added to a couple of other dog charges and attacks from the year. It scarred me as well and made me a tad agoraphobic. We increase our activity and we get out there, we make ourselves vulnerable to things like that. After July our trips to the forest got less frequent and I feel like we were robbed of more photos of all the changes going on in the woods. By the time we returned, many things were going by and the woods was going silent of birds. The two ravens playing was the last I saw or heard of the ravens that year.

Here is a collection of some of the photos we took with the Canon this past season. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking these pictures.

May Flowers in bloom

Star Flowers in bloom

Blue Bead Lily in bloom

Sheep's Laurel or Lamb Kill in bloom (one of my favorites)

Unknown flowers on a bush.

Indian Pipes- are actually not a fungus or mushroom like I always thought. It is a flower! (The Heath Family)

Fringed Polygala

Wild Columbine

Low Bush blueberries

High Bush blueberries

Painted Trillium

Touch-me-Nots

Pink Lady's slippers

Pearly Everlasting

Pink Strawberry blossom

Lady's Slipper with Bunch Berry blossoms

Leatherleaf?

Thistle with Bee

Pink Wild Lupine

Raven

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