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Took only a few insect photos this past summer so today will share these with you.   I find dragonflies fascinating in that they come in such a variety of colours and sizes and hatch from alien looking nymphs.  Although I don’t like spiders they also come in such a variety of colours and sizes and today’s blog has another variety of orb-weaving spider.

Below:  Dragonfly newly emerged from nymph stage

Below: Orb Weaving Spider in the web

Below: Bee approaching a lambs ear plant

Enjoy!

~Sharon

We are experiencing some great weather as we head into fall with our temperatures reaching the mid 20′s celcius which is quite above average for this time of year.  This post is dedicated to some late summer scenes as we head into our fall season. Below are bunch berries growing on a moss covered log in Atitaki Wilderness Provincial Park.

Below: A silhouette of my cousin on the shore of Lake Manitoba.

Below: A dragonfly resting on a garden flower.

Below: Eastern Kingbird at a local pond.

Below: Cranberry Bush with ripened fruit.

Enjoy!

~Sharon

There are some things a person may only see once during their lifetime and I believe this may be one of those events.  Thousands of Monarch Butterflies had gathered in a little area of Moose Lake Provincial Park one very windy mid-August day.  They were in the air, on the ground and hanging from tree branches like bunches of grapes.  I am not sure but I think it was just too windy for them to fly across the Lake of the Woods Boundary waters between Canada and the United States so they just gathered in this remote little area of the park where we happened upon them while on a trail.  Enjoy the photos of what I believe was part of the great Monarch Butterfly migration.  It was an amazing sight!

Enjoy!

~Sharon