Season's End Plant Life on Georgian Bay (Photo Album)

On Labour Day, we made our way to Killarney for a day hike around the lighthouse area. Even though the season is already turning cold, this fact reinforced on that day due to light rain and heavy fog, there was still plenty of pretty plant life to observe and photograph. Some flowers are still blooming, some berry trees and bushes are still bearing fruit, and all kinds of mushrooms are just popping out. We’d usually go nuts over the wild berries that grow along the Georgian Bay coast, but on this trip, the mushrooms were most impressive.

Mushrooms

September is the best month to see the huge variety of mushrooms found in Northern Ontario’s boreal forest. Some are poisonous, others are edible. Don’t pick them unless you know what’s what…

Large yellowish mushroom growing on the forest floor.

White mushroom poking out of dry pine needles.

Neat-looking brown and orange spotted mushroom.

Taupe-coloured mushroom, it's top flat and wide open, the edges ridged.

Yellow mushroom rising up out of the moss.

Red mushroom, it's top coloured coat starting to peel away.

Brown mushrooms growing among dead leaves.

Dark brown mushrooms shaped like flowers.

Large white mushroom hiding in the grass.

Three beige spotted mushrooms of varying sizes.

Brownish-reddish spotted mushroom, the centre of the cap verging on beige.

Plant life around Killarney's lighthouse includes this cute little yellow mushroom.

Flat-topped mushroom growing out of the moss.

Brown-capped mushroom growing out of the moss.

Reddish-orange mushroom seen while hiking near Killarney's East Lighthouse.

Many redddish-orange mushrooms growing in the shade of a rock.

Browse the Season's End Mushrooms gallery — click any image above to view a full-sized version in a pop-up carousel.

Berries

Cranberries are already coming out! Some were almost ready when we saw them in Killarney, many still half-white and most still too small to pick.

The blackberries we saw were delicious, though! I didn’t remember to get a picture of them since I was too busy eating them, but I did get a picture of a type of berry neither one of us recognises. They may look like blueberries, but they’re not…

A pink granite rock outcrop stretches towards the forest, berries hanging from a branch in the foreground.

Browse the Season's End Berries gallery — click any image above to view a full-sized version in a pop-up carousel.

Flowers

Enjoy these beauties while you can — they won’t last much longer now!

The first picture was taken while walking along the edge of a marsh towards the end of our hike. The other two were taken at the base of Killarney’s East Lighthouse on Red Rock Point.

Plant life around Killarney's lighthouse includes these pretty purple daisy-like flowers.

Plant life around Killarney's lighthouse includes these delicate purple flowers.

Delicate flowers growing by Killarney's East Lighthouse.

Browse the Season's End Flowers gallery — click any image above to view a full-sized version in a pop-up carousel.

Extra Flowers

Here are a couple of pictures of flowers I’ve taken over the past two months (to keep our dreams warm as the weather begins to cool).

The white one is from the plant that grows along the railing of our apartment staircase every summer. We have nothing to do with it, but we love it. We owe our thanks to the former tenants for bringing nature’s beauty into our daily summer life!

The pink one was taken while day hiking the Hawk Ridge Trail at Halfway Lake Provincial Park. We thank the Earth Mother for this one (winky face).