Flowers, beavers, and insects

6.05.12    Tall Meadow-Rue (Thalictrum polygamum) is starting to light up wet ditches with its airy sprays of white.  The blue of True Forget-me-Nots (Myosotis scorpiodes) is unusual and eye-catching along streams - these were growing near the base of a waterfall. 

 It looked like recent rains have incited beavers to dredge up mud and leaves to reinforce their dam and put their logging on hold.    

I came upon the Harvestman working on its lunch on top of a Daisy Fleabane; flowers attract insect pollinators and make good hunting ground for predatory insects.