I noticed this growing last year, so had my eye out for it this year. It feels like it is blooming much later than last. This is another one that I’d like to get growing in the yard – so quirky.

It really does seem like the bee population has been way down this year, but this guy was making good use of the abundance of yellow flowers in the forest.

A bit of a stretch for the iPhone camera – but we can see that the pelicans are visiting the lake – hopefully finding some of those fish I learned are growing in the ponds.

The apple tree is having a good year – lots of apples and it seems like it isn’t attracting much attention from the squirrels. The tree is dwarfed by the Linden and Sugar Maple on either side, so sometimes we don’t realize that it is getting to be a reasonable sized tree.

Another example of something I haven’t previously seen growing along the path suddenly growing in a couple of spots this year. We got some of these this year for the yard.

This guy was enjoying the shrubs along the edge of the forest.

Prairie Onion putting on a great show in the area along the driveway. The rabbits seem to try one or two spikes and realize that they don’t like the taste, so they get to grow largely undisturbed.

I had to step a little outside of the backyard to capture this one – but another example of some dramatic summer sunsets.

Another example of yellow flowers growing along the path where I haven’t seen many of in previous years. These are growing in abundance in the long grass all around the fountain area.

These are another favourite of the bunnies, but I seem to have adjusted the fencing enough to allow some of the plants to escape their notice. There are hundreds of volunteer plants growing – maybe they get their fill continually trimming those.