Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the apex predator of the

the apex predator of the Canadian night forest

Glen was as fascinated by fish as by birds and mammals

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

with its layered ridges receding into the haze

The martin house — that very human addition to the summer yard — sits in the painting as a promise: the martins will return

Flowering Raspberry — Gallery Canvas Insects and Butterflies the apex predator 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.