blossoming

 It's an unusually rainy year here. I'm used to the mist and fog of the westcoast, so I assumed this was normal spring weather in Southern Alberta. While the locals complain and wait for their grasses to turn brown and gold in the summer heat, I have no problem wearing my raincoat and sliding through the mud, rolling down the coulees with the the thunder, long grasses licking my legs. I'm sure the plants are enjoying it too -- the nature reserve has become a jungle and is keeping me from feeling too homesick for my coastal rain forests.

moss phlox

little mushrooms

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three flowered aven

chokecherry bush