A tree with delicate yellow flowers at Ashbridge’s Bay this week. Willowish leaves, but is it a willow? © BCP 2010 Friday, June 25, 2010 update: Of course! How silly of me. The tree above is a Russian olive (Eleagnus angustifolia). A fellow Toronto nature photoblogger, who goes by the handle Don Watcher, answered my […]
A wild multiflora rose bush (Rosa multiflora) with upside-down Canada geese at Ashbridge’s Bay. The vertical shadow in the water is the stack from the sewage treatment plant across the bay. © BCP 2010 Some days you just get lucky. It’s simple serendipity. (And I think it augurs well for the first day of summer. […]
Yellow hawkweed (Hieracium caespitosum) inside wire mesh protecting a sapling in High Park. © BCP 2010 Sometimes on my walks I get the feeling that there is scarcely a tree in Toronto that is safe from the ravages of our hardworking national symbol, the beaver. Certainly the trees in my neck of the urban woods […]
A beautiful blue butterfly feeds on bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) at Ashbridge’s Bay in June. © BCP 2010 Here’s what’s recorded elsewhere on my site as quote of the day: In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no […]
New cones of the tamarack tree, (Larix laricina), at Ashbridge’s Bay Park in mid-April. © BCP 2010 Tamaracks, one of our land’s most beautiful native trees, are really very special creatures. They’re deciduous conifers. Huh? Didn’t we learn in grade school that there were two kinds of trees — deciduous ones like oak, maple and birch, […]
