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| JOE-PYE-WEED AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| DAISY FLEABANE AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| ASTER AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| ASTER AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| GOLDENROD AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| GOLDENROD AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| GOLDENROD AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| GOLDENROD AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| ASTER AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| YARROW AUGUST 17, 2014 |
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| An afternoon stroll. Nipigon. |
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| Grus Canadensis |
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| Wingspread to 7 feet. Size : 40 - 48 inches. Collins writes, " Large birds like these cranes were easy targets before protection. The Sandhill Crane has never recovered its earlier numbers, and never will, so long as we keep on draining our marshes." |
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| Salt-And-Pepper Looper Moth Syngrapha rectangular |
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| Food in our area: Firs, Spruces, pines and other conifers. Wing-span: 3 - 3.5 cm Active: at any time of the day or night. Dark gray with sharp silver and light gray markings. |
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| The dam is on the left, topped by vegetation. "Four-wheeler" and moose tracks in the mud. |
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| You can see it is quite a large "clearing" of drowned trees that will now become a meadow. July 23, 2014 Driftstone Lake Road area. |
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| Driftstone Lake Road July 23, 2014 |
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| Free to grow poplar. Driftstone Lake road, July 23, 2014. |
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| A few more windy days and this stand's usefulness will be a moot question. Driftstone Lake road, July 23, 2014. |
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| Sagittaria latiflolia |
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| Emergent leaves are variable. |
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| Boreal pollinator "fly". |
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| Above flowers grow at the edge of this little lake. Driftstone Lake road area. July 23, 2014 |
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| Not showing, the pile of crushed rock to our right. The moraine runs for maybe another hundred yards then abruptly ends. |
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| This moraine is being cannibalized by rock crushers. |
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| Showing the gradation in rock size. A natural settling of the mass. |
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| The bottom of the moraine. |
