This is what it’s all about, folks. The floral glory that is Northern Ontario.
What’s that? There’s more to the north than rocks and lakes and trees?
You bet your sweet bunchberry there is!
Just the other day I discovered the underwater macro feature on my camera. Love the results for these dry land shots!
As with so many landscape images, the camera cannot adequately capture the expanse, the scale (with out without a body present), the emotional impact. But I’ll share with you some of June’s fields of flowers anyway.

Photo credit to my hubby for the artsy header image.

Stay tuned for July wherein you will learn who gets the blueberries first: me or the bears?
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Changing Seasons is a monthly photo feature hosted by Max at Cardinal Guzman.
Categories: Photography
Tags: Northern Ontario, TheChangingSeasons, Town of Cobalt, wildflowers, wildflowers of Northern Ontario
Never having lived in a snowy area, I can’t imagine the joy of seeing flowers start to emerge, then bloom after the snow begins to melt. Beautiful!
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I was thinking about you and the super bloom images you posted earlier this year. Sure does make the long wait worthwhile.
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These are beautiful. What an amazing display of nature that anyone can take advantage of just by being outdoors.
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Thanks, Deb – it was chilly last night, but just as you suggest, I couldn’t sit and watch through the window. I put on a coat and went outdoors to take in the pretty. 🙂
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that field of yellow Hawkweed is beautiful, Maggie. I want that little guy from yesterday in the photo to show scale. HAHAHA!
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You mean the little chuckling? Yeah, I expect he’s in that field somewhere. Or at least a relative of his. 😉
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Oh, lovely!
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🙂
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Weeds and flowers in all their anticipated glory. The color is so much appreciated when you are coming out of white winter !! ❤️ 💛 💚 💙 💜
Just a beautiful array of photos.
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Thanks, Van! The plus side of the cool and damp spring is that the blooms are around longer and are quite lush.
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Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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A lovely bouquet
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Cheers, Mr. Knight!
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I am loopy for lupines ! Love, love, love …,
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❤ ❤ ❤
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Love some of your close-up bloom shots…and the fields of ‘weeds.’
You know what a weed is, right? It’s one of them ‘independent’ plants that refuse to grow in a straight line for the humans.
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Love that definition of weed!
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So many! 👏💕
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And there are many more, too! I didn’t want to overload the circuits. 🙂
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Beautiful flowers, Maggie! Miss the open fields of wildflower color in Southern California. Yours welcomed. 🌺🌷🌸 Christine
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Hi Christine – I’m glad that I added the field shots, then!
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Lovely! Flowers are blooming around us now too, and it’s such a welcome sign of summer.
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Yes, indeed. Welcome summer, make yourself to home, and please stay as long as you like!
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These are stunning, Maggie. Makes me want to rush there.
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Thanks, Luanne. It was fun putting this suite of posies together. I’m glad you like them. 🙂
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Beautiful photos. Some hint at the scale. Amazing. Good luck with the berries, but my money is on the Bears
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Thanks, Dan, I’m glad that you like them. Last year was a poor year for berries. Hot and dry. I suspect, judging by the bounty of buds in this patch, it will be a good year for bear-ies.
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Be careful.
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I will. Thanks.
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And I thought my poor blueberry harvest last year was just my poor gardening skills. With 2 bushes in my backyard, I got exactly 1 berry. This year my heart sings with the number of budding berries 🙂
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Are yours wild berries, Joanne?
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I don’t think so. I bought them at a nursery and I believe they were labelled ornamental. They do flower and produce edible berries though – well, except for last year – and in the fall they look really pretty with bright red leaves.
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I’m not sure which impresses more – the wonderful photos of all these wildflowers, or the fact you know what all of them are!!
I know have a new name for the orange hawkweed. I’ve always thought of them as devil’s paintbrushes.
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Well now. Our neighbour referred to the plant as paintbrush, too. I double checked. It’s hawkweed. Both the orange and yellow are considered invasive. For the farmers in the Little Claybelt, that’s not so great. on the other hand, we saw a Monarch butterfly feeding on the nectar, so I’m ok with the posies.
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When I wrote the comment, I wasn’t even sure it was the same plant, but I had looked it up and discovered that orange hawkweed is also known as devil’s paintbrush. So now I’m feeling really smart because I (the botanically challenged) can identify a wild flower by TWO names 🙂
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LOL – always good to have a back up.
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You never know when I might need to use it … for example, as the answer to a million dollar question 😉
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Gorgeous photos. You have an eye for it. Our flowers, while similar to yours, are never as colorful. I’m in awe of the lupins. No, actually, I’m jealous.
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Thanks, Ally. 🙂
I can save some seeds for you!
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Those flowers were worth waiting for!
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I so agree, Ann. Thanks.
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I oohed and ahhed my way through this! Nature’s majesty, ya got there! Love this post!
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Thank you! 🙂
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What an amazing sight – especially all the yellow hawkweed and the dogwood, what variety! Lovely.
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🙂 Thank you Val – variety is the perfect word.
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So many of my favourites here! I call hawkweed ‘devil’s paintbrush’ – have you heard that before? I love seeing great swaths of wildflowers. Lucky you!
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I have heard others refer to the orange version as devil’s paintbrush as well. I think I’m pretty lucky, too. Thanks for stopping by!
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Lovely, almost perfect examples of floral display. Did you know all their names before you headed out? I like the sharp, crisp details on the petals. And of course, if the bears want the berries, let the bears have the berries!
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Thank you! I’m glad you like the pictures.
I’ve always been curious about flora and fauna and have several field guides on the shelf. I did know most of the species at one time or another. The names don’t stick, though and I had to refresh a few in this gallery.
By way of bear-y update – the blueberries are blue, but not too sweet yet.
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Let me know when the cobbler’s ready…and set San extra plate!
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How beautiful they all look!! 🌸🌸🌸 Daisy Daisy Daisy are my favorites 💞💞💞
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Hi there – thanks for stopping by to read and comment – we have something in common – my wedding cake was a simple two tiered one, decorated with garlands of daisies. 🙂
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Wow…. I can visualize how beautiful it must have looked..
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