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.

Friday Flowers

              I found 35 wild flowers in bloom along the Hamilton Waterfront Trail today. Not too bad for the 28th of October and working alone. I will be leading a wild flower walk on this same trail on November 5th. I suspect with more eyes we will find more flowers even if it is a week later and into the month of November.

            I also visited the Royal Botanical Rock Garden today. I had not visited it since it reopened in the spring after a long closure. Due to a  special function at the main building, I did not get to go into the new building but it really was the garden that I wanted to see as the RBG Rock Garden was the first public place I was introduced to when I arrived in Canada just over 50 years ago. Needless to  say, there are many changes but I still recognized the old rock garden behind all the new changes. Not very many flowers are in bloom at this time of year but it is still a beautiful place to visit. (Photos tomorrow when I have more time to download and process them.)

Three Deer

            OK, not the best photo, but if the sun was up it was just barely up and well hidden behind heavy clouds. All three of these deer were in the field just south of our property. That is our fence in the foreground. The deer that is the furthest away was less than 200 metres away, maybe around 150 metres? Just guessing, I did not pace it off. In any event, these three deer were on our property just east of our house the night before and and just left our property shortly before I took the photo. Two of the deer had run over the edge of the hill and were out of sight but one stayed in midfield. When the dog did not bark and I did not move, they became curious and came back to see what we were all about and then I managed to get the photo.

Frosty Morning