Finally caught up to getting home

Today sunny and warm, I'm surprised the trees haven't shown more colour yet but even down near Huntsville the colours have hardly broken through. The pic is from just west of town with the poplars still primarly green.
On the other hand a pic from the Yukon at the Ogilvie river valley and the Ogilvie Mountains, this was our view out the window of the camper as the sun was going down about 10:00pm.

Guess where this is

Here is a pic from a few days ago, its not Gowganda

Asters

ATVing around Bouche cut the other day and found this aster along the way. I believe it may be a Purple stemmed aster.

Bristly Sarsaparilla

Here are the berries of the Bristly Sarsaparilla (Aralia hispida), a pic of the whole plant and where it gets the bristly from. The roots were known to be used as a medicine. Found in cut overs and burnt areas.

Mountain Ash

Berries are ripening on the Mountain Ash (Sorbus americana) , they will soon be all orange.

Fall colours starting

End of August and the fall colours are starting all ready. This was taken near the Notch Dam at Duncan lake .

Wintergreen

A shot a few days ago of Wintergreen (Gaulthereia procumbens) with the berry just breaking out of its capsule the left.

Cambell and Haliday Lk. Trip

The weather yesterday looked as if we would get some rain but it held off all day. Left from Gowganda by truck and trailer to Hydro Creek where we unloaded and started the trip. This trail goes up the power line which runs from Otter Rapids on the Abitibi River south to Southern Ontario. We only did a portion to Haliday Lake and then over to Campbell Lake and back to Hydro Creek overall about 88km. Thanks to Mary Bullock and Faye Barnstaple for the goodies on the ride.

Cranberries at Leroy Lake

Back to the bog at Leroy lake, while walking across the floating vegetation came upon lots of Small Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos). Couldn't find to many that were ripe but will check back later. Not a lot of taste to the ones I tried.

A side note-- (Common Cranberry or Northern Cranberry) is widespread throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. It has small 5–10 mm leaves. The flowers are dark pink, with a purple central spike, produced on finely hairy stems. The fruit is a small pale pink berry, with a refreshing sharp acidic flavour

Paddling on Leroy Lake

Out taking some pics in the bog at the north side of Leroy Lake. One of a white water lily in its prime.

Another look at Bunchberry

A new spin on Bunchberry.

LeRoy Lake Rd

Haven't been up this way for a long time, lots of the old trails have disappeared after you cross the creek. The trail that goes north turns east and follows up the west side of Lost Lake. On the way back I found a Tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) these were old fashioned garden flowers that are now a common weeds. This one was covered with blooms and about 1 m. high. The leaves when crushed are very aromatic.

Everett Lake Rd.

Cool this AM out for a ride up the Everett Lake Rd east of town. Lots of Pin Cherries along the sides of the roads, bears have been pulling the trees down to get at them.

Blueberries

Two days of hot, hot sun picking blueberries. Berries were small in sunny areas and a little bigger under some shade. Not like the crop of last year where you could pick a 4 litre ice cream container in 40 minutes. The same container this year took an hour and a half. A pic of processing some berries in the house and a shot of Davidson Lake.

Dogbane

A common weed along the side of the road with interesting white with pink bells. You can almost hear them ringing.

Fireweed

The edges of the main highway and bush roads are putting on a show of Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) these days, and the blueberries are ready for picking. What more could you ask for.

Purple loosestrife

Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) an aggressive evading species. I haven't seen this around the Gowganda area until today, in the ditch near Hedlund Marsh. Only a few plants but it is enough to get them started. Check the link to learn more.

Here is another HDR pic

Here is the another HDR picture. This one from the same area. Will be getting out tomorrow to do some photography, I was heading out this AM but the ankle high grass tripped me on to the lawn tractor.

Long time no post

A couple of weeks looking after grandsons and then heading for Sudbury to help my son move to another house. Never even had a camera nearby for several days. Today it was time to get posting again. Out near Hedlund marsh again and down the Mann Ridge Rd. Today a view of the marsh on the north side of the highway. This again is a HDR photo, six photos with different exposures put together.

Fishing at Elkhorn

Took the grandsons into Elkhorn Lake to have some fun catching Smallmouth Bass. Didn't take long to catch a pile. None big enough to bring in. This is the shorelunch spot to be for the view of the lake. Even had a desert of blueberries.