The sun was partially obscured by smoke from the Northern Saskatchewan wildfires giving a reddish tinge to the light.

Viper’s Bugloss up close.  Apparently the structure minimizes evaporation of the nectar by sunshine and prevents dilution by rainfall.

A Yellow Warbler peaking out from the Tag Alders on Hwy 529.

A nice patch of Oxeye Daisies.

This is as close as I could get to this rangy bear before it ran off into the bush … on the way to Byng Inlet.

I think that this is an immature Goldfinch as it stayed in one spot while another one flitted around it.

This is the one that was doing the flitting.  Mother?

This Chipmunk paused in its scampering to check out the camera.

This is the remains of an old house that burned to the ground overnight.

Big Lake Pickerel Weeds in the setting sunlight.

Oft-photographed Big Lake in a different light.

Ditto.