We've had ample rains and now with the warmer summer weather (hard to believe it's summer already and the days are starting to get shorter) the wildflowers are bursting into bloom.
There is lots of wild roses along the bush line which means to me there will be lots of rose hips for teas and such.
Wild Roses Growing Along the Bush Line
Here's a close up of those beauties (whenever I look at these photos the remembrance of their sweet smell comes to mind - wish I could send that to you)...
Close Up Wild Rose Blooms and Buds Promising More to Come
Speckled through out the forest floor is the lungwort with their interesting blooms that start as a pink color and then when they are fully open turn blue.
Lungwort Blooms Showing Their Early Pink Color and Full Bloom Blue Color
Another flower quite abundant in certain areas of the forest floor is the bunch berry.
Close Up Bunch Berry Blooms on the Forest Floor
One of the flowers that I am quite taken with is the vining honeysuckle blooms for I have fond memories of growing the honeysuckle vine as an ornamental in my yard.
Close Up Wild Honeysuckle Bloom
Along the ditches of our country road there are lots of different wildflowers for they do not spray the ditches like they do along the highways.
There is an abundance of bedstraw coming up in the ditches especially where our neighbors have cut the grass. It's funny, some of my neighbors never left their city ways behind and want to keep the ditches on their property manicured looking like a lawn. Not me, I love the wildflowers and let it grow wild until the municipality does their once a year mowing of the ditches to keep any trees from growing up.
The bedstraw got it's name as it was used to stuff mattresses.
Tiny Pinkish White Flowers of the Bedstraw
The pea vine is winding it's way among the other plants adding it's lovely purple color to the landscape.
Lovely Purple Pea Vine Blooms
I find the occasional Seneca snakeroot growing there.
Close Up Seneca Snakeroot in Bloom
Another wildflower that has a spike of blooms is the heuchera or alum root.
Close Up Heuchera (Alumroot) Bloom
A cute flower that grow on the stalk of a grass is the blue eyed grass flower. There was an interestingly marked pollinator sucking on the nectar on one of the blooms.
Fly Like Pollinator Sucking Nectar on the Blue Eye Grass Flower
I know it is summer when the wild tiger lilies begin to bloom and I saw my first one the other day - love the brilliant orange in the landscape. The tiger lily was growing among some dainty little star flowers.
Close Up Tiger Lily Bloom Growing Among the Star Flowers
And one last wildflower to share with you, a patch of pussy toes. I'm quite fascinated with the patches of silver their leaves create then their cute pussy toe like blooms.
Patch of Pussy Toes in Bloom
On our acreage we had planted loads of lilacs and now they are mature and producing oddles of blooms they attract all sorts of insects. The ones that are most prevalent are the swallowtail butterfly.
Beautiful Swallowtail Butterflies Sucking Nectar From the Lilac Blooms
Another butterfly that was starting to show up was the white admiral butterfly.
Underside of White Admiral Butterfly Looking At Us
Top Side of White Admiral Butterfly Showing the Lovely Blue Orange and White Markings
Another visitor to the lilacs was the fascinating hummingbird moth. It flies just like a hummingbird but is not quite as large and has clear wings.
Pair of Hummingbird Moths Enjoying Nectar From the Lilacs
Close Up Hummingbird Moth Sucking Nectar From Lilacs
This next picture shows the clear wings and the beautiful coloring on this moth.
Close Up Backside of Hummingbird Moth Showing It's Clear Wings and Beautiful Coloring
The last insect I have to share with you is my friend the dragonfly. I call them my friend for they eat mosquitoes!
Close Up Light Green and Gold Dragonfly
Another animal that eats mosquitoes is the frogs and we have plenty of them around our place. Here is a couple of them that were just by my steps.
Pair of Frogs By the Grass
Now for an update on the family of Canadian Geese I saw last week. They are getting quite big and are kind of gankly looking for they don't have their feathers yet.
I saw them as they were just coming out of the tall grasses by the pond and heading into the field to feed.
Look at the little wings on these fellows and to think that by fall they would have grown into the big powerful wings that will take them on their fall migration.
Family of Canada Geese Coming Out to the Field to Feed
Pair of Canada Geese and 10 Goslings Grazing in the Grass
That's it for this week. There was so much happening for it gets pretty intense with our short growing season here in the boreal forest of Canada.
This is my #WednesdayWalk hosted by 
Also my Amazing Nature Contest June #3 entry. See details here
The photos were taken with my Canon PowerShot SX60 HS.
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