Clintonia or Blue Bead grows in the cutovers along with the blueberries, if you a picking with childeren watch they don't pic the berries from this plant, they are poisonous.
Not much water flow out of Firth Lake with the dryness this summer. A quiet stream with pictures at beaverdam and a small rapids. Near the rapids and in the shade some Arrowhead and Jewelweed. 
Here's one I forgot from yesterday a Blackeyed Susan (Rudbeckia serotina).
Can't belive this is my 401st post, just seems like yesterday. I'm sure I will be finding more pics and places to post for some time yet.
Down to find Spear Lake today with Mike and Sharon Carss my neighbours across the street. Great trip down the road to the bridge and then on to the best part of the trail which follows a ridge covered with Jack Pine. mosses, lichens and blueberries. The lobster mushrooms were just starting to appear out of the ground, this is about a month earlier than last year. I had picked quite a few of these last year and they are very good fried up in butter and some salt and pepper.
Up the Bouche Rd. west of town for some pics after the rain today at least it kept the dust down while driving. Noticed quite a few blueberries starting to appear in some spots.
Out with the boys fishing on Burke Lake in the canoe, after a couple of hours time to get out for a stretch and found some interesting plants. The Common Pipewort (Eriocaulon septangulare) the top pics and another new one the Water Lobelia (Lobelia dortmanna). No fish were harmed on this trip. 
The boys and I did some scouting around Diabase Lake on Wednesday we were looking for a plant I found last spring on the shore. It was a Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana), I wanted to take some flower pictures but too late the bloom had turned to seed. It is the first picture. The second is from the blog in the spring if you remember.
