It has been endlessly hot with temperatures around 28 or 29C every afternoon.  However, most mornings it is around zero.  My poor potatoes have been zapped with frost so many times I am not sure they are going to make it.

I have not had much time for walking, but occasionally I get a chance to get about.  The wildflower season is marching on.  Cow parsnip.

This beetle was drowning in nectar.

The paintbrush are looking a little ragged.

The cut-leafed anemone has gone to seed.

The yellow Rattle is coming into its own.

This is the kind of thing I see every morning from my window.  It is amazing that we have no smoke from forest fires. (That white stuff is mist from the river: remember, in the shade, it is zero degrees!)

The turning season is bringing on diseases.  Here is a blasted saskatoon berry seen near Alexis Creek.  What appears to be a fungus is sprouting from the berry itself.

Close to home, some young cottonwoods are sporting a very showy infestation.

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