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

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

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

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 (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

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." (...)

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

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 (...)

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

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

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

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 (...)

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

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

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 (...)

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

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 (...)

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 (...)