RBG Friday

            Too bad thinking about blogging does not make a blog. 

            The day started nicely with our local Great Horned Owl singing to the dog and I at 5:30 long before the 8:01 sunrise this morning. 

             I did my usual morning work at the Royal Botanical Gardens Herbarium then went down into the Hendrie Valley to look for wild flowers still in bloom. Between the Hendrie Valley and the edges of the plots in the Rose Garden I found twenty-four wild flowers in bloom. The brightest colours, however, belonged to the tree leaves and their reflections in the Hendrie Valley ponds.

Looking Up

            Going to post some looking up photos, but first . . .

            Hopefully I got the last tick of the season. I found one on my side last Friday evening that had been there for a while. Sigh! I suspect that I got it at Rock Chapel as I was there earlier in the day in the tall grasses. I have never had one on me so late in the season.

           Spring Peepers and American Robins are still making noises in the morning around our fields and Monday morning I saw a Pileated Woodpecker in the Walnut Tree closest to our house.

            The usual three deer were in our west paddock this morning so a bit closer to the house than usual.

            And finally, the "looking up" photos that I said would be here:

Sundogs from the road east of our  property. 

They stayed in the sky for a good hour.

Looking up at Milkweed Pods and seeds.

Yesterday Morning's Frost Effects

Sunday Morning Dog Walk

Three photos from the dog walk this morning.

First, from the top of a fence post, a bit of new moss growing.

Then an encounter with three deer, wondering which way to run.

And lastly a Panicled Aster bloom, still hanging on, more or less.

Royal Botanical Garden's Rock Garden - October 28, 2016

The best flower view of the day was by the front gate.

The "mums" put on a great display.

Seedheads of one of the grasses were quite beautiful.

They kept many of the original tall trees in the garden.

I think the waterfall is new, 

or at least I do not remember it being this tall.

Hostas next to a smaller waterfall look great 

even going to seed.

I liked how the water was catching and reflecting

the blue of the sky just below the falls.

This part of the garden reminded me a bit of 

Monet's Garden in Giverny, France.

If I have rock garden photos from my1966 visit, 

I have not found them . . . yet.