andyfyon
andyfyon.bsky.social
andyfyon
@andyfyon.bsky.social
🇨🇦Proud Canadian, retired geologist, photograph landscapes, geology and wildflowers, author (andyfyon.com), travel Canada, botany and geology hobby, nature lover, love Canada's far north
Stephen Leacock Museum National Historic Site or the Leacock Museum), Old Brewery Bay, Orillia, Ontario. The museum is quite cool. Well worth the visit. Photo composed Aug 4, 2017. #stephenleacock #lecockmuseum #stephenleacocknationalhistoricsite
October 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Winterberry (Ilex verticillata): a shrub that is well suited to wet, poorly drained soils. It berries are so vivid! You can almost see it across a lake. Cemetery Lake, Burwash prison farm, south of Sudbury, Ontario, Oct 3/25 #nativeshrub #burwashontario
October 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Anemone parviflora, also known as the small-flowered anemone, above the treeline, Montana Mountain, Carcross, Yukon Canada, June 14/23.

#hiking #yukon #nativewildflower
September 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
View over Lake Superior on June 11/25 at Jackfish, Ontario, Canada, a ghost town now.

#lakesuperior
September 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Morning fog along the shore of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, June 10/25. A good place to look at the geology and some disjunct Arctic - alpine plants. Video at: youtu.be/BKRldtGm1d4
September 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Morning light on the garden, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Aug 14/25

#morninglight #garden
August 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am working on another YouTube video (Rambles With Robin and Ruby): scenery and simple geological controls on plants, Marathon, Ontario, Canada, along the Lake Superior coast. It is a moody lake - at least as seen from the lake shore trail system. July 9/25

#lakesuperior #marathon #summermood
August 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Another red morning on planet Mars, Ottawa, Ontario, Aug 5/25.

#forestfiresmoke #sunrise
August 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
White meadowsweet - Spiraea alba, I think - at sunset, Esker Lakes Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, July 26/25.

#sunset #nativeplant #summer
July 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Window with a view. Ontario, Canada, July 24/25

#sunset #summerlake
July 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Forest in transition, Cobalt, Ontario, July 22/25

#foresttransition #forest
July 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Beautiful morning, July 22/25, North Bay, Ontario, Canada.

#morning #river #ontariocanada
July 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Setting Sun over Lake Nipissing, North Bay, Ontario, Canada, July 21/25

#water #sunset
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Mink Creek waterfall, west of Marathon, Ontario, Canada, June 9/25.

#waterfall #minkcreekwaterfall #ontariotourism
July 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My most recent YouTube video is now live. I share my search for Arctic - alpine disjunct plants along the cold Lake Superior shore, Ontario, Canada: youtu.be/c3r9vg339wg
S25E01 Arctic Alpine Disjunct Plants Smokey Point, Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario
YouTube video by Rambles With Robin and Ruby
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July 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), certainly not rare, but it is an important food for the monarch butterfly caterpillar. Campbellford lock #14, July 5/25.

#nativewildflower
July 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Painting entitled Red Landscape Wheel - Forest Fire on display at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario. The artist is John Abrams, Photo composed June 3/25. A fitting painting given the many forest fires that affected North America in spring 2025.
July 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Striped coralroot (Corallorhiza striata), a native orchid, is still in bloom at Rene Brunelle Provincial Park. I read that it obtains its nutrients from soil fungi (share.google/lhTs2sjlDDbH...). Photo composed in a very buggy Rene Brunelle Provincial Park, June 20/25.

#wildflower #nativeorchid
June 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Twin flower (Linnaea borealis) is a small native plant that is common in the cool boreal forest (and other habitats). It is in full bloom now in the Geraldton, Ontario, Canada area, June 19/25.

#wildflower
June 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Butterworth (Pinguicula vulgaris), left, traps insects on its sticky leaves. Round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia), right traps insects on the sticky appendages on its leaves. Both plants use insects to supplement their needs.

Rocky shore of Lake Superior, Canada, June 12/25.

#wildflowers
June 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Certainly not rare, but blue-bead lily (Clintonia borealis) is just starting to bloom in the boreal forest north of Lake Superior, Ontario, Canada, June 9/25

#wildflower
June 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Rock harlequin (Capnoides sempervirens), also known as pale corydalis or pink corydalis, is an annual or biennial plant native to rocky woodland and burned or disturbed places in northern North America, evening light, Marathon area, close to Lake Superior, Canada, June 7/25

#wildflower
June 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Saw this single pink lady's slipper orchid in the campground at Chutes Provincial Park, Ontario on June 4/25. That it has survived the human activity associated with campground areas amazes me.

#wildorchid
June 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Tranquility this morning, June 2/25.

#tranquility
June 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Starflower (Lysimachia borealis) is a common boreal forest plant and it is in full bloom in the Lake Nipissing area, Ontario, Canada, June 1/25

#wildflower
June 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM