Urban Nature
Urban Nature

A look at Mud Lake with the city of Ottawa in the background.

Fence In
Fence In

No, I didn't place the leaf there. Some errant wind did that.

Bee Breakfast
Bee Breakfast

The bees were still busy visiting the remaining flowers. We have had some patchy frost overnight but no killing frost yet.

Slug Shroom
Slug Shroom

I was crawling around the shoreline of Mud Lake when I came across this configuration. Slugs are maligned creatures but I liked the way it added a spl (...)

Black Neighbour
Black Neighbour

I meet this kitty frequently on my way either to the bus stop or the Ron Colbus Center. He comes over for a fist bump with his head and then returns t (...)

Drunken Raccoon
Drunken Raccoon

There was a rapid knock on my door at 7 am yesterday morning. "Jean, come quick!" Ingrid whispered urgently. I opened the door and she beckoned me i (...)

L'il Naveen
L'il Naveen

As they say in Lanark County, it was "drunker than a fart". "Really, Ingrid," Said I. "It has been pigging out on the grapes fermenting on the vines." (...)

Working Bee
Working Bee

Some of the fading flowers are harder to deal with, as this hard-working fellow is finding out.

Leaf Armada
Leaf Armada

I was drawn to a quiet spot by the lake and gazed at the serene paysage. With infinite grace, a zephyr gently blew newly fallen leaves across the limp (...)

Fall Pond
Fall Pond

Mud Lake and one of its many secluded scenes by-passed by joggers or yapping trail walkers.

New England Aster
New England Aster

These might be New England Asters. I could be wrong. I often am wrong. Prove me right.

Grave Flowers
Grave Flowers

I continued my walkabout into the St. James Cemetery. Many of the headstones were decorated with plastic flowers. I did find a few real flowers that h (...)

Coral Shroom
Coral Shroom

Coral Shroom growing amidst lichen and other shrooms on a dead sumac trunk.

Orange Slant
Orange Slant

My wanderings took me back to Mud Lake. I wasn't expecting much this late in the year. Yet, here was a new batch of Jelly Fungus - Dacryopinax spathul (...)

The Brown Family
The Brown Family

Brown shrooms are difficult to find as they blend so well into the forest litter. A squirrel led me to these ones.

Beaver Damage
Beaver Damage

The beavers have been busy around Mud Lake. They have felled a lot of trees as they fix up their lodges for the winter.

Headstone Flowers
Headstone Flowers

The real flowers were very healthy looking. I guess it is because of all the fertilizer around. Anyway. it was soon time to go. My other adoptive niec (...)

Mud Lake Mirror
Mud Lake Mirror

A calm surface, a blue sky and distant clouds. Time to relax and reflect.

Mud Lake Fall
Mud Lake Fall

The canopy is starting to burst into Fall colours. This ends the current set of images. I'm now off to Buckingham to re-new friendships, eat sumptuous (...)

Rocky Shrooms
Rocky Shrooms

It is odd to see shrooms seemingly growing out of rocky terrain. It also shows their strength as they push up through the rocks to spread their progen (...)

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