Ornamental Buttons

This exquisite bloom is currently on show all around the wetland edges of the lakeshore. What a magnificent sight to behold - they look like tiny planets.

Workouts

Lilypad workout
Never underestimate
All the benefits 

Beaver passageway:
Needs hands gripping on grass tufts
To progress forwards

Fields of pick'rel weed

A delight to the senses

Tough to paddle through

Recurved Fruit

I love finding totally new species of plants unexpectedly popping up in my yard, and this recurved buttercup was no exception. Thanks to the bees, Wood Ducks and Chipmunks, I've added a new species to my yard without having to buy one at a nursery.

Look at how beautiful this fruit case is - exceptional! This simplicity and clarity just oozes beauty to me. This is Ranunculus recurvatus (Hooked Buttercup)

I think the fruit is more showy than the somewhat ordinary flower 

Bedraggled Fisherman

This poor fisherman had been enjoying a sunny afternoon fishing when it suddenly poured down, something that has happened a lot this summer.

I guess it was schadenfreude, but I couldn't help but smile that I could get to shelter!

Oh, and it is said that karma will come and get you ... well, it did! I got caught in a rainstorm leaving the grocery store a few days later, and had to use a shopping bag as a rain hood!