On my early morning walk on the upper trail in Fintry Provincial Park, the scene mid May is very different from earlier in the season.  Masses of lupines line the pathway and straight away I smelt the wild roses –  an array of both pale and deep pink blooms.  

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As I walked further on though I discovered a variety of wild flowers that I am not totally familiar with but it made me do some research and hopefully I have identified them correctly.  

Scarlet Gilia (gilia aggregata).

Brown eyed susan’s in the Gaillardia family (blanket flower)  

These flowers always remind me of snapdragons – they are called linaria genistifolia.

Slender hawsbeard (crepis atrabarba)

Plenty of Yarrow (achillea millefolium)

As I neared the waterfall I discovered a patch of iris left over from the time that there was a garden surrounding a home long since gone.  

Beautiful pale blue bearded iris.

I also came upon a tree with masses of pea-like white blooms which I have since discovered is called a Black Locust (robinia pseudocacia).   The flowers are very showy and fragrant.  

On the many walks that I do through Fintry Provincial Park I never fail to find something of interest.