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Photos from TCH#1 near Braintree on 2006jul20:
Queen-Annes lace: plant Queen-Annes lace: umbel of flowers Queen-Annes lace: umbel seed-stage Queen-Annes lace: umbel seed-stage closer Spiranthes romanzoffiana: flower-spike Spiranthes romanzoffiana: flower-spike Spiranthes romanzoffiana: flower-spike Stinkbug: on Spiranthes_romanzoffiana Kalms lobelia: Kalms lobelia: Habitat: Romanzoffiana etc ditch beside TCH
- Queen-Anne's Lace is regarded as an invasive weed in some places, but here in Manitoba it is a very rare plant, though possibly spreading. Each umbel is an umbel of umbels, the whole plant being roughly an umbel of umbels of umbels.
- We encountered a dead Black-bear on the roadside near WyeRd - but alas no photo.

Photos from Contour on 2006jul20:
Viceroy butterfly: on Horsetail Viceroy butterfly: on Horsetail Viceroy butterfly: on Horsetail Alfalfa butterfly?: and Viceroy butterfly

Photos from BirchRiver-Bridge on PR503 on 2006jul20:
Fringed-gentian: Jewelweed, Spotted=Impatiens capensis: flower Jewelweed, Spotted=Impatiens capensis: closer

Photos from PR308 on 2006jul20:
Hawk-owl: Hawk-owl: Hawk-owl:
- There were 3 of these crow-sized owls at this location; the 1st 2 photos are of same owl, the 3rd is another.

Photos from Bog on PR308 on 2006jul20:
Common buckthorn=Rhamnus cathartica: with berries

Photos from gravel-pit near Braintree on 2006jul20:
- not "The Cusson" municipal gravel-pit, but the nearby GWWD gravel-pit known as "The Pit"
Cross-shaped evening-primrose: Monkeyflower: bad Monkeyflower: bad

Photos from gravel-pit near Braintree on 2006jul16:
- same species in same location but taken a few days earlier by Doris Ames:
Cross-shaped evening-primrose: Cross-shaped evening-primrose: Cross-shaped evening-primrose: Monkeyflower: Monkeyflower: