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A couple of snails on the water lilies. Two, yes. Look closer.

Wild purple clematis

The sun. Somewhat hidden by the clouds, yes, but it's still there.

Telephone pole. No, I don't know why.

Patio lantern and roses

Dad and dog tracks

Van, melting. Ok, so it's the snow that's melting.

Sky. Or clouds. Or ash tree. Whatever.

Patio meltwater

Yet another shot of the sky. It's a nice sky, though.

Van heater shutoff sign. Still not telling why I took it.

Assorted fish doing fish things

Rikki, ticked that I'm taking her photo. Not a big fan of the flash.

Poplar seed pod and leaf

Frosted-up patio lantern

Purple oxalis flowers. Obviously it's the leaves that are purple, not the flowers...

First sign of spring. And a ladybird.

Hardy primula peeking out of snow

Snow profile

Back alley river

Boots and ice

Downspout drips

Max evaluating the general smell of a Chevrolet. Or something. I'm really not all that sure what he was up to.

Self-portrait on snow

Actual green, growing things

Look! It's a grill!

Icicles attacking my birdfeeder. Some April so far, eh?

Orange Daylily

A mouse in the bird feeder

Snow angles. Yes, I mean angles, not angels. You don't see any snow angels here, do you?

April 10th, 2007. Yes, seriously.

Some lily.

Bricks. No reason.

One of last year's tulips

Wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana)

Willow buds 14 April 07

European crocus

A fly on the toilet flap that's anchored in the lawn. Now I bet you'll want a toilet flap anchored in your lawn too.

Anemone patens buds

Pointless posts

Yet another icicle

Red flashlights

Early Blue Violets

Partially open Narcissus

More Anemone patens buds

A very strange abstract of an evergreen bush. I don't know either.

Narcissus...es. Narcissi?

Crocus bud opening

Fish. I guess that part was kind of obvious, wasn't it.

Red squirrel playing piano. Ok, not really.

Another squirrel photo

A very small spider on a bird bath.

What crop do you suppose he'll get?

Two-spot ladybird with bonus spider

Prairie Crocus or Pasqueflower

Seven-spot Ladybird on cotoneaster

New leaves on High Bush-Cranberry

Cream-coloured tulip

Viola and spider

Buffalo Bean (Thermopsis rhombifolia)

Broken tree from May snowstorm

May 24 snowstorm

A tulip. What a novelty, eh?

Think of this one as an abstract. I do.

If you look really closely and your monitor's colour is decent, you'll see a spider web.

Yes, it's more ladybird porn. Everyone needs a hobby.

Ladybird on a rose leaf

Yellow Water Iris

Saskatoon flowers

Pin Cherry blossoms

Spider on a rock. Yeah, I know. No kidding it's a spider on a rock, Dee.

Zebra Jumper and push-pin

Zebra Jumping Spider

Tripod by the pool

Dirty Moe being reflective

Ok, so my weekend fashion sense is somewhat lacking. I don't care.

Some beetle or other on a white Cinquefoil flower

Head-on view of a Goldenrod Spider. Just a quick charcoal sketch.

Cranesbill Geranium, aka Sticky Purple Geranium

A fly on a rock

Back view of a wet Oriental Poppy

Centaurea, also known as Perennial Bachelor's Button

A group of wet irises. Irises tend to get wet if you leave them out in the rain, you know.

A double tulip nearing the end of its existence. With guest fly.

Ladybird head shot

Iris and honeysuckles

Double flowering plum

Random white roses

Raindrops on a spider web

Beetle porn... now with added observer!

Hammock (?) Spider and prey

Rose after collision with photoeditor

Elongate Long-Jawed Orb Weaver on Canna leaves

Crab spider on Shrubby Cinquefoil

Crab spider on a rock

Mayfly on a screen

Peony attacked by photoeditor

Hen and chicks assaulted by photoeditor

Max wants ooooout

I thought it was the violets who were supposed to be shy.

Harvestman and purple oxalis

Pardosa sp. with egg sac

Rose, on the flip side

Max getting some love

Peas. Well, minus the actual peas.

Pardosa sp. with egg sac. The real thing, as opposed to the sketched variety.

Jumping spider posing for the camera

Dragonfly on iris leaf

Damselfly on Iron Cross Oxalis

Caterpillar, which is apparently some sort of Owlet Moth (Noctuidae). Seeing as that's the biggest frigging family in the Lepidoptera, it doesn't narrow things down much. Not bitter at all about that.

Self-portrait on the fish pond

Lily attacked by contrast button

Meadowhawk (Sympetrum sp., maybe internum) on finger. My finger, in fact.

Male meadowhawk

Looks sort of like a gymnastics pose, don't you think?

Dragonfly on a wind spinner

Dragonfly mauled by photoeditor

A dragonfly. Bet you didn't guess...

Meadowhawk squeezed through the photoeditor

Squirrels don't care for the flash

Meadowhawk on windmill vane

Mating darners. Yes, again.

A female darner of some sort. Too lazy to check.

Variable Darner

Orb weaver of some sort taking a damselfly out of its web

Fairly unfortunate damselfly. Oh, and a spider.

That's way closer than you ever need to be to a daylily.

Goldenrod spider on a sunflower. Not a colour alteration this time; that's what the sunflower really looks like.

Jumping spider sp. on raspberry leaf

Red Canna leaf. With a bit of photoeditor fudging.

Damselfly of some sort or other. Can't be bothered looking it up.

Contrail and copycat clouds

Cosmos and guest Goldenrod Spider. Make that "really tiny Goldenrod Spider."

Orb weaver on web

The underside of an orbweaver from last summer.

Damselflies mating. Or at least starting the act.

Goat's-beard (Tragopogon dubius) seed head

Harvestman or Daddy Longlegs

Penny, aka Lumpy. Why Lumpy? None of your business.

Twining Honeysuckle mangled by photoeditor

Great. Another dragonfly.

Grass spider in cotoneaster hedge

Late August sky over the Sanctuary

Squirrels do, however, care for sunflower seeds.

Raspberries. Yeah, wouldn't have guessed that one, Dee.

Max in a basket

Rain droplets on the back of a twining honeysuckle leaf

Lizard. In a vase. On my desk.

Black Meadowhawk again

Black Meadowhawk female on Silverberry

Merlin perched on a snag

Yet another Cherry-faced Meadowhawk. Hiding in a spruce tree this time. Obviously not hiding very well, but still.

Angel Trumpet (Jimsonweed) seed pod opening

A very tiny butterfly nectaring on Yarrow flowers.

Solar motion demo. And what does it do, exactly? It demonstrates solar motion, of course.

A dragonfly. Yay for dragonflies.

Apple in the rain

Asiatic lily from the back

Marigold. And fly. And spider.

Back of a sunflower, complete with almost-hidden ladybird.

Sunflower abstract. With bonus bug.

Damselfly on dogwood

Penny after decorating herself with patio dirt. Made sense to her, I guess.

Canna leaf after rain

Mushrooms and other things

Does this need explaining?

Harvestman on oxalis

Penny in usual Penny posture

Yeah, it's more beetle porn.

Shoes and sock. The sock would be what the dog's back leg is modelling.

Grape leaf overdosing on the Contrast button.

Natural-colour grape leaf. By way of comparison, I guess.

Immature ladybird beetles on scarlet runner bean leaves.

A nearly-done clematis flower

Bergenia leaf (well, part of one anyway) turning colour

Max taking a break from a busy afternoon of guarding the shuffleboard.

Spider vs Hoverfly. Spider wins.

Fall peony leaf

Somewhere in this photo there is a Black-Capped Chickadee who hates me.

Some spider or other

Max on the stump of the old poplar tree. Should that be former poplar tree?

See? There it is. Headless, apparently.

Full-on chickadee action. Minus the swearing, since my camera doesn't have a microphone.

Hippodamia tredecimpunctata tibialis. Translate that as: Thirteen-spot ladybird beetle. On a windowsill.

That's right, you too can help prevent squirrels from drowning by putting old chicken wire over your rain barrel.

It's a Not-a-bee. Isn't mimickry fun, boys and girls?

High Bush-Cranberry

Bet you can't guess what this is.

Kenilworth Ivy. Oh, and a spider.

A moth on the siding. No idea what kind, and don't really care. ETA: Ok, so I lied. It's possibly a Bruce Spanworm Moth (Operophtera bruceata).

Rose hips, the wild version.

Chickadee/voodoo doll

Clematis buds opening. Obviously this isn't a recent photo.

Clematis buds open

Bruce Spanworm moth and Kenilowrth Ivy making some very nice, aesthetically pleasing lines against the siding on the house. Shut up. I am NOT weird.

Raindrops on sweet pea leaves

Today's mystery object is a pond pump covered in algae. You'd be covered in algae too if you spent the spring and summer sitting in a fish pond. Just saying.

IT'S A DRAGONFLY. Seriously, I'm running out of things to say about dragonflies.

Harvestman on a wild rose leaf. To be honest, I just liked the shadow.

Gazanias, and no smartarse comment to go with.

Thin-legged wolf spider on a basement window ledge.

Rather pathetic-looking leftover grapes on a rather pathetic-looking trellis. Aren't macros fun?

Clematis leaf, only slightly mangled by photoeditor.

Happy Halloween

A doomed Tiger Swallowtail. I can't be the only person out there whose cat likes to eat butterflies. Right?

Amaryllis close-up

Twining Honeysuckle fruits

Mule deer in the vacant lot

It's Max! And Max's back left foot! Hi, Max's back left foot!

Fire's ok if it's safely behind a grate. Otherwise? Evil.

It's a branch. Yeah, I don't know either.

A mayfly. The wings are small because it had only just metamorphosed. It takes a bit of time for the wings to fully inflate (with fluid, not air) and harden.

Remembrance Day

House Finches. And window reflection. Shut up. I know it's a bad picture.

Fall rose leaves

Pretending that honeysuckle branches are abstract art.

Yes, it's another dragonfly. Deal with it.

Clematis seed head

More clematis seed heads

Anyone who doesn't know what this is by now hasn't been paying attention.

Crab spider of some sort on a rose leaf

It's snow pretending to be an abstract...

Bachelor's button... the annual version

Hollyhock petal veins

It's lunch. And a very small elephant.

Non-wild rose hip

Let's play Fake Spirograph!

A bee on a Veronica flower spike

Attack of the Giant-Footed Cat...

Polish Christmas Lullaby

A sunflower bud

Another sunflower bud

Woodpecker feeder

Boris and Natasha, the tiger salamanders

Christmas lights. What do you mean I'm supposed to take the photo at night?

Dead peony in the snow. Does it at least count as arty? How about artsy?

Peony not dead. And not snow.

Honestly, the only reason that this picture exists is because I liked the effect of the light.

Snow on a partially-dispersed clematis seed head

Frozen kenilworth ivy in snow

Dirty Moe in the rain

Christmas tree lights

Snow-covered watering cans

Christmas tree in the light

I would assume that there's a bird feeder somewhere in the area of this tree. Just a hunch.

Vines and willow stump

Here's your way out

A contrail. Obviously not taken recently.

Dead clematis leaf

Downspout drips

Canna lily leaves. Call it an exercise in light and shadow.

Grape leaves and grapes

Meadowhawk on daylily leaf

Very persistent creeping bellflower leaves

The centre (not center) of a tulip flower

It's a hole in a log. I imagine you figured that one out without my help, though.

Me, reflected-in-car-window version

Climbing rose. William Baffin, if I remember right.

Bread in a bush. It's the latest thing in decorating.

Just a couple of logs

Patterns on the driveway

Fred the Christmas Cactus

A pickaxe in the snow. Everybody needs one.

Clematis flower

Max's butt end. Such the photographer, me.

The nephew. The one on the left, I mean. The one on the right is not the nephew.

Something snowy

Assorted firewood

A fly. On a rock.

Fish in a bucket. Everybody needs one.

Where the deer go. Not play, no. That's the range.

Snow on Blue Flax

Snowy shingles on the shed. Enough alliteration for everyone?

Dead marigolds in snow. The things some people will take pictures of, eh?

Snow on the fire pit

Snow-covered rose bush

It's Let's Advertise QI Day! For no apparent reason, yes.

Snow on an apple tree

Shrubby cinquefoil and snow

Dog tracks and a red boot

Wet Martha Washington geraniums

Random spider in my dad's house

The Bird and Van Dance

It's a dead flower. Sad, really. For the flower, I mean.

Tail light. No reason.

Max, so engrossed in what he was staring at that he completely ignored the camera flash. That's a rarity.

Delphinium leaf after rain. Oh, and a fly.

Spot the deer. How many can you find?

Dog bane leaf starting to turn.

Mule deer track

Smartweed (Fleece Flower)

Smartweed (Fleece Flower) in fall

Ice on the patio. Note the sunflower seed shells. Sure sign of a birdfeeder nearby, you know.

Teddy Bear Sunflower

Fairly wet rose

Bread in a bush. The sequel.

First violet of spring

Kenilworth ivy pretending to be a shamrock substitute

Mountain Ash bud. From last year, actually, but I never got around to using it.

Assorted flowers with a weird flash effect

Sprouting flower bulbs as of 22 March

Greenhouse vent

Pink rose. You know, in case you couldn't tell that by looking.

Frosted spider webs on junipers after a fog

Wild rose with hoarfrosted spines

Prairie crocus buds

Apple tree branches assaulted by photoeditor

Fly on pavers. On rock. On fishpond...

It's dying snow!

Tulip flower that I cropped very closely because I liked the shape. Hey, I'm allowed.

It's a pouty dog. This would be the usual attitude, in case anyone wondered.

Slingshot. That's what it is, all right.

Tulip leaves. This would be before the deer gave them a trim.

Dragonfly on a wind spinner. Somewhere in this same album you should be able to find the manipulated version of the same shot. You know, if you're into that kind of thing.

Iron Cross Oxalis. They were a freebie years ago from a bulb company. The tulips my mother had ordered have all long since disappeared, but oxalis goes on and on and on and on...

Deer tracks. Oh, and a shoe as well.

Last year's first apple blossom. It's still a bit early for this year's.

Thin-legged Wolf Spider (Pardosa sp.) on the side of the fish pond.

European crocus

Crocusses after deer modification

It's a hand drum. Get it? Hand. Drum. Yeah, whatever.

Early Blue Violets, amongst other things.

Thin-legged Wolf Spider on the side of the house. It's a girl. The spider, that is. Not the house.

Flag. And tree. And really dull-looking sky.

Max is, obviously, the most subtle cat in the universe.

Another look at the deer, who were looking at me.

A mule deer sticking its tongue out at me. Click zoom. You'll see what I mean.

Dead leaf. Yep. That's what it is.

Icelandic poppy from last year. I thought the blog could use some colour.

Wine gums... and other stuff.

Poppy flower bud

What will probably be the only daffodil photo of the year. The late April storm hit them pretty hard.

Blue flax leaves. Er, leaves OF blue flax. The leaves themselves are not, obviously, blue.

Bergenia with flower buds

Anti-deer devices. Kind of Rube Goldberg in a way, I think.

Meadowhawk on silvermound

Twining Honeysuckle leaves

Young chokecherry leaves

Viola adunca, Early Blue Violets. Which are purple. Go figure.

Heuchera leaves

Some of last year's double tulips

Pink rose bud from last year

So I like striped socks. Big deal.

Fairly open tulip. The heat made them go pretty quickly this year.

Fairly small ladybird beetle on a rose branch

Bumblebee on Nanking Cherry blossom. Uncooperative bumblebee. Wouldn't pose.

Let's play Stupid Photoeditor Tricks with some currant leaves. Contrast, anyone?

Purple clematis, early in season

Yet another photo of a Prairie Crocus, because at the time they're flowering they're about all there is out there worth taking photos of.

Poppies pretending to be an abstract

Male Red-winged Blackbird. Not singing in the dead of night. Thanks for playing, though.

It's "find the dragonfly"!

Apple buds and shy ladybird

Moss phlox flowers. They're purple, you know.

The things a cat's gotta do to ease the thirst these days...

Tree swallow in nest box

Tree swallows doing what comes naturally

Sticky Purple Geranium

Piece of a pansy

Iceland (or Icelandic) Poppy. Simple flower, but one of my favourites.

Some spider or other pretending it's a trellis

Wild purple clematis again. I really like the lines.

Lilacs, macro-silly style

IT'S NOT PURPLE OR YELLOW.

Blue Flax flowers

Purple iris, backlit

Yellow iris, although apparently yellow flowers are some variety of evil.

Iris. It's State the Obvious Day, as well.

Iris, after a body wave.

I don't really have much more to say about irises at this point...

Beetle orgy in a rose

Er... yeah. It's an iris.

Jumping spider (probably a Zebra Jumping Spider, Salticus scenicus) on a rose leaf

Jewel Spider or Jewelled Araneus (Araneus gemmoides) having a meal

I have no idea why this duplicate is here. I could swear it wasn't here a while ago.

Honey bees (bees, yes. Look closer) on Sea Lavender

The back of a begonia

Small spider on a rose leaf

Spider on rose. Hammock Spider, pobably.

Goldenrod spider eating a hover fly. With bonus appearance by Dirty Fingers.

Rose. That was obvious, I hope.

Elongate Long-jawed Orb Weaver hiding on a rose leaf

Bumblebee in a rose

Harvestman on rose bush

Goldenrod spider and hover fly. Ex- hover fly?

Pardosa sp with egg sac. Oh, and some rocks as well.

How many animals can YOU find? I wish I could remember how many there really are...

Pileated woodpecker on snag. More or less.

Max displaying his outdoor gear

Our local free-lance arbourist

Rose in prison. Looks kind of depressed about the whole thing, if you ask me.

More wet rocks. Or, more accurately, the same wet rocks...

The (probable) fox den across the street from my father's house. In town, yes.

Long-jawed orb weaver on rose leaf

Not-quite-open Centaurea

Some moth or other

Same moth (or other) again

Harvestman on a Jimsonweed leaf

Erigeron with guest spider. I swear I wasn't trying to take a picture of a spider this time. Honestly. It was just there, that's all.

Northern Pearl Cresecent on Silverberry (Wolf Willow)

Butterflies (probably Northern Pearl Crescents) mating

Same butterflies. Still mating.

The euphemistically named Angel Trumpet. Angel Trumpet translates as Jimsonweed in real life.

Orange daylily. Mostly by way of comparison. No, I'm not going to explain that.

Grass. Wet grass, even.

My monitor. And some other stuff.

There is a muskrat in this photo. Really.

An orb weaver of some sort or other

Twining poplar trees. Not twining honeysuckle. That's a different thing altogether.

What are YOU looking at?

Poppy courtesy of the garden. Weird cropping courtesy of me.

Photographer hunting spider

The hunted spider

Pink Bachelor's Button

African Daisies

Cats on the lawn. Max is hiding in the jungle.

Daisies and friends

Northern Pearl Crescent

Pardosa sp on a rock beside the fish pond

Nasturtium and bud

Peas. Obviously.

Blue Bachelor's Buttons

Yarrow and friend

Hollyhock from the side

Moody lighting for a begonia

Dahlia (front side)

Dahlia (back view)

Jewel Spider in the carport

I think it's meant to be a cantaloupe. Don't take my word for it, though.

Jewel Spider at the kitchen window

Long-jawed orb weaver and side-on view of web

Literally, some bug. I don't know which bug it is, but it's definitely a bug.

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