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A beautiful caterpillar but it can be quite destructive and poisonous!
The gypsy moth caterpillar has been reported to produce a poison ivy like rash when some people come into contact with the hairs of the larvae (caterpillar) stage. The contact can be direct or even indirect, if the small hairs are carried by the wind and onto the skin or clothing of a person.
It is not a native species. Gypsy moths were accidentally introduced in 1869 when they were brought to the U.S. in the hope that they could breed with silkworms to create a hardier variety of silkworm and develop a silk industry in the US. Didn't work. But some escaped and they are now well established.
The destructive paths of previous avalanches are recorded on these steep slopes. From the mountain peaks to the lake shore, pine trees have been bull-dozed by tonnes of snow in the Canadian winter.
I took this shot in Oct 2023 while visiting NYC. It is a planthopper, an invasive sap-feeding insect from Asia. It has spread invasively to South Korea (2006), Japan (2009), and in 2014, the species was discovered in the eastern United States.
It is believed that L.delicatula entered these countries via egg masses that were laid on exported goods. Currently, these countries have implemented pest control efforts which have sought to limit population growth and spread, due to the threat this species poses to global agricultural industries.
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 24. 2022
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
Take a moment and just breathe \\ Rural West Coast British Columbia
Pitt Polder Ecological Reserve was established to preserve a fragment of the rapidly disappearing Fraser Valley boglands.
Ecological reserves protect special natural ecosystems, and support research and education. They are not intended for outdoor recreation. However, this ecological reserve is open to the public for non-destructive activities like hiking, nature observation and photography.
Reference BCPARKS.CA
Coast BC Mountain Ranges
Pitt Polder
Canada
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Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 24. 2022
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
Four days after the devastating storm of 21 May 2022 that killed 11 people and did a lot of damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 24. 2022
Pholiota populnea
- destructive pholiota
- pholiote destructrice
- Pappel-Schüppling
- wollige bundelzwam
Location: Voornes Duin, The Netherlands.
Date taken: 9 November 2025.
Reeve's Muntjac / muntiacus reevesi. Minsmere, Suffolk. 12/02/15.
From the archives and made earlier this year.
Muntjac are never popular garden visitors for those that value their flower beds and shrubs. They can be very destructive in their quest for food.
However, I always feel privileged to find them.
I love to observe them out in the woods and find their anatomical build hilarious! Their legs look too short and they are decidedly rotund (fat)..... but completely endearing.
If you can dismiss the two little 'devil horns' and the goofy, fang-like canines, you are left looking at a stunning face with beautiful liquid brown eyes.
Pholiota populnea
- destructive pholiota
- pholiote destructrice
- Pappel-Schüppling
- wollige bundelzwam
Location: Voornes Duin, The Netherlands.
Date taken: 9 November 2025.
Two days before the total destruction from the damaging storm of May 21 this old apple tree with blossoms still in tact in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 19. 2022
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 24. 2022
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
in explore
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
It was a quietly destructive stream of smoke and fire and screeching brakes on I-40 east. The frontage roads and both directions of the freeway were shut down as fire and ambulance crews dealt with the aftermath of a wind and dust storm that caused a four-semi pileup, to be followed by torrential rain.
Just to add to the eerieness of the post-dust storm atmosphere east of Conway, Texas, this rainbow appeared as rescue crews were operating. No one was traveling the roads; parking on the overpass bridge was the only option for a while until emergency crews finished.
Here it is once again.
Another continuation of "Entrance." The destructive force human beings made to nature has led to this, the death of trees and all that lives with it.
This series has definitely led me to this space where I just don't want to stop creating. I created things I've never made before, and those new things opened my eyes that I am actually capable.
I do like to try something new, and there were so many new things I've experienced since the idea of this picture came out. I had this crazy idea to made the costume myself. The first thing that I needed to know was that I am not a fashion designer, nor a sewer. But I decided to try anyway, because there's nothing wrong with trying.
We got up at 3 a.m and drove to the location, hoping the weather wouldn't be a trouble. This time I brought a generator I borrowed from a friend, and it was nothing light. We moved the generator into the deep of the woods, and the ground was boggy. If only there was a smaller generator to start the smoke machine, things would not be heavier. However, I was happy that I worked with things I already had (or the ones I could just borrow). The next thing that happened was that I got home dirty, and my body stiff.
But the most important thing is realising that this combination of making something new, the exhaustion of moving a heavy generator, and by doing it my best, has finally turned into an image I am truly proud of, and all the effort paid off.
Model: Natasha Sinsoe
Assistant: Farah Korompot
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Tachinids are of great importance in the control of destructive insects, particularly caterpillars and beetle larvae. For this reason several species have been used in the biological control of pests. For example, the sugarcane beetle borer population in Hawaii has been reduced by the tachinid Ceromasia sphenophori from New Guinea; the coconut moth in Fiji has been controlled by the Malayan tachinid Ptychomyia remota; and Centeter cinerea was transplanted to the United States to check the destructive Japanese beetle. The caterpillars of the armyworm may be up to 90 percent infested by larvae of the red-tailed tachinids
Transmission of Biological Visualisation (ANTBV)
Artist: Russell Anderson
Medium: Bronze and Stainless steel
Date: 2011
Above the southern parkland and located on Redcliffe Parade is Russell Anderson’s artwork entitled Apparatus for Non-Destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation. The work is an interactive sculptural device presented as a popular street-side amusement.
Russell, a longtime Redcliffe local, has created a fictional nautical legend of what was once a real 19th century explorer vessel, shipwrecked in Moreton Bay. This device, salvaged from the wreck, contains the captive essence of a sea creature. Viewers are invited to turn a handle, generating power to view the sea-creature essence contained within and its projected image.
This sculpture tells the story of an imagined local history. ANTBV acts as a fictional appliance or device that evokes the past by using design elements from another era. As the only remaining invention of a fictional, early nineteenth century naturalist, this device is an interactive sculpture that explores local fauna on a whimsical level.
We've had a series of hugely destructive storms in the past few weeks, with record rains, record snowfall, record cold (I think...) and winds well into the hurricane-force zone (up to 170 kmh). A lot of places have been devastated. Thousands of trees have fallen onto roads and power lines and houses and whatnot... including a lot of big ones here and there around our neighbourhood.
So I was kind of scared when Echo and I took a trip to my favourite park yesterday. I wasn't sure what we'd see in terms of storm damage. Turns out... nothing. Not a thing. Even the dead trees stayed intact. And this is in a park that abuts the ocean, and would've got the wind full force.
I did see a sort of flattened area, and went over to investigate. Turns out it was the scene of a fire... from a summertime lightning strike. I took some shots but couldn't come anywhere near to capturing how it felt... that burnt-out wild place... with charred tree trunks suddenly stark... their companion shrubs and grasses gone.
I did, however, find a gun. Which... believe me... was quite the eerily compelling experience... given that yesterday was one of those days that feels like permanent twilight... and Echo and I were all alone... and there was just such a sinister "vibe" in that fire stricken area. I was pretty sure the gun was fake but it was sooo heavy...
I took it home and managed to read the writing on its side. I Googled it and, sure enough, it's a toy pistol, likely made some time in the 1960s or 70s... and... even though it's a replica... considered (in some jurisdictions) an illegal weapon.
It looks like it's been buried for a long time. The barrel and working parts are stuffed full of muddy dirt and teeny tiny crawly things and whoknows whatelse, accumulated through the years. One of its side pieces is melted... presumably from the fire, which seems to have been a precursor to the gun's unearthing.
I'm not sure why I like derelict things but I gotta say... this gun is pretty cool. Mike checked it out and said, "Photo prop." Ooooooh yeah. You bet it is.
They are numerous in farmlands throughout New South Wales and Queensland, and have become so common in some areas that they have become something of a pest, and can be destructive to the trees in which they perch, by chewing the bark off smaller twigs.
Part left of the old apple tree in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a cloudy blue sky in Squires beach , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 1. 2022
The destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old apple tree with blossoms in the old orchard on the waterfront trail of lake Ontario with a blue sky in Squires beach
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
This dainty little wild iris grows along the shores of wetlands or other swampy spots. Whether wild or cultivated, iris are mostly immune to being eaten by mammals like those destructive deer because they contain toxic chemicals in their foliage and rootstock.
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Built for the 2nd Blitz'ard flash MOC contest, "Best battle scene" category.
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It was that time of the year once again...
The famous Elken warrior R.N.R.* Rudolph, who led the Great Reindeer Revolution that overthrew the malicious regime of the reigning Santa Claus, was gathering his elves and santas to go on his annual destructive rampage across the Urtican Planes.
Throughout the year Rudolph makes a list of the Urticans, categorizing them according to their behavior: the nice Urticans will become a bacon-wrapped turkey** and the naughty ones a lump of coal. In the head...
Unfortunately, due to a computational error*** the threshold for being nice has been set way too high, so practically all Urticans are being classified as naughty.
So beware Urticans, Rudolph is on his way and his sack is full of coal!
Hit Urticans with lumps of co-al.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
'Tis the season to be jolly.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
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As for the sleigh: ironically enough, the lead Santa of the sleigh was chosen to be the rebellious S-ain't-a Claus, who has been dishonorably discharged after the great fiasco of 2015, where he forgot to show up on his only working day of the year due to a heated darts game with his buddies in the local pub. He has been charged with the horrendous crime of "Bros before Ho-ho-hos" and he pleaded guilty.
Just like R.N.R. Rudolph, he also has a red nose, but in his case it is not genetical, but a result of his excessive consume of mulled wine.
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*: no, not Rock'N'Roll Rudolph, more like the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
**: © Gary
***: the Elken are not great in arithmetic calculations because they can't write the numbers down and, unlike human with a total of 20 fingers and toes, only have two hooves on each foot
After 1000 years, the destructive lava flow turned to a beautiful beach.
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Yellow flower and tree on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , June 29. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees with blossoms
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
On this day in 1889, one of the most destructive men in history, Adolf Hitler, was born. He is shown here as he would have looked during his service in the Kaiser’s army during WW1. Wounded and temporarily blinded by a gas attack in October 1918, Hitler sat out the rest of the war in a hospital bed, and was shocked to hear of Germany’s defeat a month later. Like many German nationalists, he believed Germany had been betrayed by non-patriots, marxists and Jews. The rest of his life would be committed to restoring Germany to its former glory, establishing its dominance over the world, no matter the cost in human life or liberty. And costly it was.
'Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.'
― Salvador Dali
Merge Butterfly Conservatory
I just returned from a 2-week trip to the Big Island of Hawaii with so many new favorite
photos that it will take a while to sort them out! So here is one from Yesterday morning to get started. A very destructive new lava flow has inspired park officials to aggressively keep people many hundreds of meters from lava flows, so I got no lava pictures... just so you know. No HDR.
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 17-40L @29
1/4-second exposure @F9
LEE soft ND grad (100x150mm - 4x6in) 0.9 + 0.9
Lee foundation kit filter holder with Lee 77mm adapter ring
No polarizer.
ISO 100
RAW file processed with Capture One by Phase One
TIFF file processed with Photoshop
Small Slik Sprint mini II tripod
Manfrotto pistol-grip ball head
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I just returned to San Francisco last night and it seems impossible that I saw this view just yesterday morning my time just 3 hours before my flight. I could not resist one more pre-dawn hike into this scenic valley.
The Big Island has a wide variety of climate zones and geological regions. Lava flows create lots of new land and those areas are rough and new. Areas like this valley are on the older side where the volcanos are extinct and the land is being sculpted into fantastic forms. The almost 14,000-foot (4200m) Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea volcanoes create rain forest upwind and barren deserts downwind. And they can exist just 4 miles apart! The beaches vary from black sand, to white, golden, red and even green. It is a photographer's paradise, but it is big and you have to do your research to find the best spots.
To get here, you must get up well before sunrise (it is not a sunset beach), drive to the tourist pullout and hike down a 400-foot trail in the dark to get here in time for sunrise. It is not a difficult hike but it is slippery and one mistake and your day is ruined! Also, this is a great place to spend the day, far away from civilization. I'll write more about this valley in future uploads.
The map shows the exact location.
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My pictures are featured on the front page of the newly redesigned
The state Gov. of California website. Have a look! It is Flash with my pics cut into layers for a 3-d slideshow. If you are into building apps, the State has opened up lots of data to the public, so check it out!
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Google Earth
Simply the best way to scout out locations that there is. You can see sun angles and pre-visualize light under lots of different conditions. Sometimes you can actually pre-compose your shots! This has saved me many thousands of vertical feet of climbing by avoiding spots with blocked views etc.
Satellite imagery (choose 'National' for a local US region or use your fave website)
www.wrh.noaa.gov/satellite/?wfo=mtr
Tide charting and preditions: (chose your area in US, other countries have similar websites)
tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.shtml?gid=235
Wave Heights (I choose 'North Pacific from Global')
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/main_int.html
Or Here:
www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/RP1bw.gif
Photos of every inch of the California coastline from a small plane. Excellent for close in detailed views.
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During my seven and a half decades on this planet our country has undergone magnificent changes, some good and others destructive. But one huge change from my childhood is how our country has changed from one where the majority of livelihoods were made by folks who labored manually and knew what sweat on the brow meant. Many today have to don high-priced jogging shoes to experience what used to come free.
This photo was taken in 1913 in South Dakota and my grandfather is behind the wheel driving the mules. My guess is this photo was taken when the farmer's wives brought out a field lunch for the harvesters which they did in the mornings and many times in the afternoons as well.
Though there were exceptions I am sure, for the most part this generation had a strong sense of right and wrong, solid morals, a sense of community and almost all of them needed a good night's sleep due to the work they did each day. The departure of a society from hard physical work to mental labor may bring certain advantages but I know from experience as a lad that working hard during the day leaves little inclination or energy to act foolish in town at night.
(Note: My wife thinks I might be regressing to my childhood as I could spend hours colorizing old photographs but growing up in an age where we could not afford color film when it first came out, I still prefer some color in photos to simply black and white.)
Beautiful blooming Dogwood and many more trees on Duffins trail in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 28. 2022
American Larch trees with beautiful small cones
Tamarack trees with beautiful small cones
Cones
Blooming Dogwood
flowering white dead nettles
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees with blossoms
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022 that destroyed life and did damage to buildings and nature it wrecked this beautiful old willow tree on Duffins creek with a blue sky in Discovery bay , Martin’s photographs , Ajax , Ontario , Canada , May 24. 2022
Looking down at the front end of my bicycle
Bicycle
Four days after the destructive storm of 21 May 2022
old apple trees with beautiful blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
blue sky in Squires beach
May 2022
Blossoms
Flowering trees
apple trees with blossoms
old orchard on the waterfront trail
Old orchard
Trees with blossoms
vista with colourful trees ,
bulrushes
tall grasses
the large stone block walls
system to keep the Carp from entering Duffins marsh and creek system
viewed from the bridge across the marsh in Squires beach
Having a nice walk with granny in the woods
Family
Sunset
May 2022
Shrubs
Oak tree
Trees
Stones
Reflections
Reflection
Dogwood
Orange yellow Tamarack tree
Duffins trail
blue sky
cloud cover
yellow Tamarack tree
Tamarack tree
Tamarac
American Larch tree
Beautiful Nettles and it’s flowers
Nettles
Waterfront trail on Lake Ontario
Waterfront trail of Lake Ontario
Black eye Susan’s
Colourful bird houses
Autumn
Shadows
Reflections
Garter snake
Large mushroom
Bird houses
Autumn
Duffins creek
Discovery bay
cropped photograph
closeup photograph
Martin’s photographs
Ajax
Ontario
Canada
Duffins creek
Favourites
IPhone XR
Mushroom
Large Mushroom
wildflowers
Trout lilies
Lake Ontario
Mouth of Duffins creek marsh
white Deadnetles
River
Dogwood
Woods
Granny
Favourites
White Trilliums
Duffins marsh
Duffins trail
Ferns
Trilliums
Large tree
So destructive, A pair of cabbage butterflies and their larvae ate most of my baby broccoli and kale.
On our hike this afternoon, we witnessed the aftermath of the very destructive May 2022 derecho.
A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system.
Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash floods. In many cases, convection-induced winds take on a bow echo (backward "C") form of squall line, often forming beneath an area of diverging upper tropospheric winds, and in a region of both rich low-level moisture and warm-air advection. Derechos move rapidly in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to an outflow boundary (gust front), except that the wind remains sustained for a greater period of time (often increasing in strength after onset), and may exceed hurricane-force. A derecho-producing convective system may remain active for many hours and, occasionally, over multiple days.
The major fires burning in Northern California's wine country continue to burn relentlessly, forcing additional mass evacuations. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra satellite acquired this image the morning of Oct. 12, 2017. The fires have consumed hundreds of thousands of acres, resulting in significant loss of life, injuries and heavy property losses. The city of Santa Rosa is in the upper left corner; Napa is in the upper right; and Sonoma is in the center. In the image, vegetation is depicted in red and smoke is blue-gray. Active fires and hotspots, detected on ASTER's thermal infrared channels, are in yellow. The background colors have been subdued to make the yellow hotspots more apparent. The image covers an area of 35 by 57 miles (57 by 91 kilometers) and is located near 38.3 degrees north, 122.5 degrees west.
Image credit: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team