A sunny day in mid October and the dinner plate dahlias are still blooming like crazy! Nature rules!👍 #flowers #garden #dahlia

A large fungal growth on a tree stump #fungifriends

An old tree stump that is more white fungal growths than stump #fungifriends

A nice walk along the Fortune Lake parkway yesterday. Many varieties of wild flowers such as these asters which were popular with local worker bees. #flowers #aster #bees

The worker bees are busy today collecting pollen from dahlia and rudbeckia flowers. The bees are remarkably tolerant of idiots with cameras! 👍😀 #flowers #bees #dahlia #rudbeckia

A worker bee collecting pollen from a dinner plate dahlia flower! #bee #dahlia #flowers

Some of the dahlias I planted beside a floor to ceiling window have flowers that are facing the window (and away from the sun) giving a nice view when I open the blinds. Thank you mother nature! 👍😀 #flowers #dahlia

The Monarda (light purple flowers) and Rudbeckia (bright yellow flowers) are in full bloom. The local bees are quite happy! #flowers #monarda #rudbeckia

Dinner plate dahlia flower. I still find it amazing that a bulb the size of a medium potato produces a plant 5 feet tall with lots of huge flowers! Nature rules!👍😍

Dinner plate dahlias are loving the sunshine near the back window. #flowers #dahlia

The purple phloxes are blooming! Love these flowers as they bloom from July to late September #flowers #phlox

Day lilies are in bloom in my perennial garden! #flowers #daylilies 🌼

Some early blooms in my garden! #flowers #monarda #daylily #coreopsis

White fungal growth and green lichen on a tree stump 🍄 #fungifriends #lichen

A large round area of white lichen on a tree trunk 🍄 #FungiFriends #lichen

A large wedge of white fungal growth on a tree with patches of green lichen #FungiFriends #lichen

Large brown fungal growth on a cut down tree #FungiFriends

Fungal growths on a cut down tree with a pink and white trillium flower in front #FungiFriends #trillium

Tree stump with fungal growths and some purple trilliums nearby. #FungiFriends #trillium #flowers

White lichen on top of green lichen #fungifriends

Artist's Conk? Large brown fungal growths. #FungiFriends

Green lichen on a huge boulder and some fungal growths on a nearby tree #FungiFriends

A tree stump with plenty of green lichen and a white fungal growth #FungiFriends

#fungifriends A tree stump with many fungal growths with a waterfall in the background.

#fungifriends Green and white fungal growths on a small tree

#FungiFriends #lichen Thick patch of green lichen on a birch tree

#FungiFriends Straight on and from below photos of a large colony of fungal growths on a tall tree

#fungifriends #lichen Yellow lichen on a sunny spring day

#fungifriends Fungal growths on tree stumps and downed trees.

#fungifriends #birch White fungal growths on a downed birch tree.

#fungifriends #lichen Green lichen on a tree on trail 23 at Stoney Swamp.

#fungifriends #lichen Green lichen on a small boulder. The boulder is surrounded by snow.

#fungifriends Many white fungal growths on a tall tree. The snow is starting to melt but still quite deep. Looking forward to searching for mushrooms on the forest floor when the snow is gone!

#fungifriends #lichen After 20cm of snow and then a day of freezing rain, the trails in a local greenbelt forest were 6 inches of slush. There was white lichen on many of trees of differing sizes.

#fungifriends Small pink mushroom in the midst of green ferns.

#fungifriends Out for a hike in nearby greenbelt forest and saw this big white fungal growth.

#fungifriends Green lichen growing up the side of a tall tree on a blue sky spring day.

#fungifriends #flowers #trillium #lichen #trout-lilly Lichen on a boulder with purple trillium and yellow trout lilly.

#flowers #monarch #butterfly Monarch butterfly on a black-eyed susan flower

#fungifriends Fungal growths on a tall tree.

#flowers #trillium In the spring, before the tree canopy blocks the sun, the trilliums bloom on the forest floor.

#fungifriends A colony of fungal growths beside green lichen on a tree.

#fungifriends Bought a new set of flannel sheets today!

#fungifriends A large fungal growth on a tree near the Visitor's Centre in Gatineau Park

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends Happy FungiFriday! Out for short hike on a warm spring day. I saw this small colony of fungal growths on a large (6 feet high) tree stump. I added the view from below to help identify the fungus.

#FungiFriends #lichen #wolf-trail Plenty of lichen on west facing side of a tree on trail #62, also known as the Wolf Trail in Gatineau Park.

#FungiFriends A spring hike (snowshoe) in Gatineau Park finds a tree with green moss/lichen and a white fungus growth

#FungiFriends Waves of small fungi on a tree trunk

#flowers #coreopsis #bees #monarda #purple #bee-balm Worker bee gathering pollen on coreopsis flower

#FungiFriends A great sunny snowshoe outing in Gatineau Park