Well, no, I don't have any fish;

It's just an evil plot...

...to inviegle you into looking at more flower pictures. Flowers are easy; they stay put. I did look for fish, and took the camera hoping to find fish---no such luck. Sorry. (But on the other hand, I found a blue flag...)

The Huron River is still very high. The photo doesn't really capture the silvery glint the sky made on the water: a strange, melancholy quality I found very enticing.

 

I think the mute swans are pretty and romantic (even though they're neither mute nor a native species)---and this one was so close I couldn't pass up a shot. The bird I would really like to capture in pixels is a bluish-grey heron I've startled a couple of times from the water's edge as I've ridden by.

 

More pretty, though non-native species: dames' rocket. I've already got a shot of the magenta ones so just for a switch I show white ones.

 

This picture was taken not on the Gallup park trail (unlike all the others shown here) but on the bike path from Cornell to Hewitt, near Eastern's student housing and the stadium. I've also seen this bicolored version of dames' rocket in Mattheai Botanical gardens.

 

I think this is false Solomon's seal, and I think it's a native wildflower (and I think I really need to find my Peterson's field guide to North American wildflowers, sigh...)

 

Yellow flags are a native wildflower. This one's a bit tattered by all the rain, but it was sufficiently enticing that I discovered the blue flag nearby, which I never would've seen otherwise.

 

And blue flags are Michigan's native wildflower. I know, I have another picture of this flower, on the page for a Wisconsin trip. But it's pretty enough for two pictures. And this one is from a slightly different angle, and it's more purple, and...

 

Photos shot with a coolpix 990, 24may04