Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the vertical bars of the

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

A Ring-necked Pheasant cock perches in an apple tree — the extraordinary iridescent plumage in full autumn display

the apex predator of the Canadian night forest

the rust-orange throat

in the garden

Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the vertical bars of theFlowering 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.