When people fell trees and then chip them to make the place look tidy they lose the opportunity to leave a beautiful mossy log to decay and provide habitat for fungi and insects and the small creatures that eat them.
They look nice too.
A rather superfluous sign telling you that you are surrounded by these trees when you can see that you are. Been there forever – rather dilapidated.
In the arboretum again – two species of lichen on this piece of bark.
The grey one is possibly Greenshield lichen while the orange one is, as far as I can ascertain, Candleflame Lichen (Candelaria concolor)
The arboretum has a number of memorial benches (good fund raiser) – on hot days they can be exceptionally welcome to the walkers passing by. This one is in the middle of the oldest (maple) sugar bush on Montreal island.
In the Arboretum – very tiny, no more than an inch long.
We happened upon this well-nourished deer in the arboretum a day or two ago and spent a few minutes staring at each other. It knew we were there but apart from showing a little caution it didn’t really seem unduly worried.
This trees roots are exposed because it has “chosen” to grow in the middle of a seasonal watercourse that drains snow-melt. For all that it has been there a very long time.
Three years ago a group of Arboretum volunteers created the “Canada 150 Trail” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the creation of Canada.Quite by chance it was found this year that the Birch Alley that forms part of the trail is directly oriented towards the setting sun for the few days around mid-summer’s day, the Summer Equinox.
Absolutely NO adjustments to the colour saturation was made in preparing these photographs – these colours are what our eyes saw. Well, what oour eyes saw through the clouds of ravenous mosquitoes, that is ;)
Took a moderately early stroll to the Arboretum to see what the low, warm light could do.
A House Wren perched just beyond an Eastern Kingbird on the Arboretum Branchery