Perryvale

One of my fellow graduate students, Graham, worked on a side project this summer looking at competition for nitrogen between different plant species in a bog. I helped with the set-up and the fertilizations throughout the summer so I was at this site a good amount - it was really beautiful!

SYNCRUDE

Driving past a Syncrude oil sands refinery one day... what a wasteland. Ugh.

Oxycoccous microcarpus (Bog cranberry)

Smilacina trifolia (False Solomon's Seal)

Vaccinum vitis-idaea (Lingonberry)

Eriophorum vaginatum (Cottongrass)

Wispy like an arctic fox shedding its winter coat - so beautiful!!

Rubus chamaemorus (CLOUDBERRY!!!!)

I just noticed some berries forming today!! Hopefully I will be in Alberta when the berries are ripe - probably when I am back in October! Cloudberries are the most delicious things in the whole world.