Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the rust-orange throat

the rust-orange throat

the vertical bars of the muskie's flank vivid against the green of the water

Glen was as fascinated by fish as by birds and mammals

in the garden

Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the rust-orange throatFlowering Raspberry Rubus odoratus in full bloom, the large magenta pink flowers vivid among the broad maple like leaves. This is one of the showiest of Ontario's native shrubs, a plant of forest edges and rocky outcrops that produces flowers disproportionately large for its modest stature. Glen rendered it with the botanical completeness he brought to all his wildflower subjects: the wrinkled petals, the clustered stamens, the specific leaf venation.