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Oh Canada's Lily

Don captures simple beauty – “A yellow flower in the garden”.    At first glance I thought it was a daffodil but after doing a little digging (heehee) I discovered it was a Canada Lily, also called a Yellow-Lily, and Meadow Lily.    Gardeners like Don know it grows from a bulb.    But in the wild the lily grows in wet meadows, moist rich woods, along streamsides even railroads.    Check out one of the descriptions I found:  ”It has exquisitely beautiful flowers, pendent bells with slightly recurving petal tips in whorled candelabra heads”.    It sure does!

DID YOU KNOW?    The lily graces us with its flowers in June.    In Québec, the Canada Lily is on the list of vulnerable plants.    It is forbidden to harvest it from a wild population.

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What's the BUZZZZZ?

I am sure Amanda did nothing to disturb this feisty wasp as it stopped by to lunch on this delicious daisy.    It’s not uncommon to see adult male wasps feed on nectar just like the honey bees.

DID YOU KNOW?    The name daisy come from “day’s eye” because the flower is only open during the day and closes up at night.    Daisies are believed to be more than 4,000 years old, hairpins decorated with daisies were found during the excavation of the Minoan Palace on the Island of Crete.    Even further back, Egyptian ceramics were decorated with daisies.

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Majestic Mount Rundle

Just outside of Banff we can see the day’s light beginning to fade.    Murray captures one of the most photographed mountains in our rockies.    “Mt. Rundle as evening draws nye”.    Mt. Rundle could actually be considered a small mountain range because the mountain extends for more than 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) and ends at Whiteman’s Gap above the town of Canmore.

DID YOU KNOW?   Mount Rundle was named wayyyy back in 1858 by John Palliser.    The honour was given to Reverend Robert Rundle, who visited the Banff area during the 1840s.    By the way – John Palliser was a geographer and explorer from Ireland.    He was sent to Canada to survey lands from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean.

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Desmond Tutu once said, “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” While I’ll leave it up to my family to determine whether or not I’m God’s gift to them, they certainly are exactly that to me. That’s why I was so excited to head south to Columbia Falls, Montana (at the beautiful Meadow Lake Golf Resort) for our first-annual “Stan Clan” Jespersen reunion.

I shared a few photos of our time together on Monday’s BT. Click on the video below for a closer look at Meadow Lake, Flathead Lake, the Flathead River and Glacier National Park.

See you in the morning!

rpj.

View from the office

Craig took this the morning that summer arrived.    To be precise, it was June 21st at 7:20am.    This is his view of the Alberta Legislature as he works on rennos to Edmonton’s Federal Building.

DID YOU KNOW?    The land you are looking at right now was vacant back in 1906, that’s when our new province of Alberta bought the land.    Construction of the legislature started in 1907 and was finished in 1912.    The building’s entrance (portico) is supported by columns and a large dome crowning the building.    The stone used in the facing of the building includes granite from Vancouver Island on the first storey, and sandstone from Alberta and Ohio on the upper storeys and dome.

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Ahh Sweeet Nectar!

Looks like Lunch!    Lynda captured this busy, uh – bee:  “Fresh air photo of the day, taken on beautiful day in the Vegreville Area”.    She has a sharp eye, spotting the yellow on yellow.

DID YOU KNOW?    Bumble bees have soft hair called pile that covers their entire body, making them appear and feel fuzzy.    On the female’s hind leg there is a tiny area that is bare, but surrounded by a fringe of hairs used to carry pollen.    Bees feed on nectar and gather pollen to feed their young.

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