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Summertime sights at Pinery Provinical Park Canoe launch on a sunny summer afternoon, just after a rain.
Lambton Shores , ON
*** Thanks to all for the views, faves and comments ***
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints. ~Henry David Thoreau, Oct. 12, 1852
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Highest position: 375 on Friday, August 22, 2008
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I think this is a flying ant ...its a bug anyway
Difficult to come up with a good Ant (or bug for that matter) song so here's a Song from Adam Ant
Another Favourite of mine
The mainly bare, grassy rolling hills that abound in the area south of Kamloops take on a smooth, sculpted appearance under a good coating of snow. So in the winter, they often look a bit unearthly. Throw in the irrigation pipes and they look positively alien.
Another image from the trip to the fairground last weekend. This time before it got dark and beaten into submission with multiple textures!...Sometimes you just can't stop :o)
The Balmoral Grist Mill Museum is a restored 1874 water powered grist mill located in Balmoral Mills, Nova Scotia. The site includes a 1 km walking trail along the ravine of Balmoral Brook. The mill is part of the Nova Scotia Museum system. Alexander MacKay owned this water-powered grist mill in the 1880s. It could be used to grind wheat, oats, barley, rye, and buckwheat into flour and meal. The Scottish oat-drying kiln is unique.
I took a very similar shot last year around the same time, but this time I haven't processed it as heavily as I did before.
Sometimes it's the little details that catch the eye. I was photographing the sail room at Port Royal, I had been quite focused on the ropes in there and not much else, preparing to exit and not very happy with my images, I looked up and spotted this simple lantern and the fishing net. I have to say I think this might be one of favourite shots taken this year so far.
I cannot visit The Tangled Garden without photographing the lavender basket...Fact! I was thrilled to find the addition of the snippers in there this time.
This fence seemed part of the landscape this day with its dry, desert-like tones rising out of the golden grasses which were almost as tall as the fence.
The same tractor you might have noticed in a couple of recent shots. The sunset tractor image was taken from in front of it looking out across the landscape. It also featured as a guest in another barn image a few uploads back. This one was taken roadside and it was another we have to stop the car moment.
The "committee" of Turkey Vultures numbered around 30 and roosted overnight in 2 large, dead trees in the middle of a swampy area. Turkey Vultures migrate south in the fall and often are seen in "Kettles" as they soar in circular patterns and ride the air currents in their southern migration. This committee departed when one Vulture took off (declared the meeting adjourned LOL) and within a moment the rest all followed along.
Pinery Provincial Park,
Lambton Shores, ON
One more from Shubie Park, I do have more, but not sure if I will post them or not. For fear of getting repetitive. I so wish these colours could last and last.
Knutsford, B.C.
If there were a fence at the North Pole, I figure it might look like this because, you know, the North Pole is curved as if it were on the top of a globe. :-)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8PxZgMrGY
A cover by someone I think has a load of talent and potential
please pop by for a listen
How can you not love Lunenburg? Such a pretty and colourful town!
We dad a lovely lunch in our favourite restaurant on the waterfront yesterday (the turquoise building).
6 images stitched, View larger and sharper on black
The Cormorant was sunning itself out on the rock when the geese started to swim up towards it.
"Preaching to the choir" was the other phrase that comes to mind when I saw this image.
Wawanosh Wetlands, Sarnia, ON
Sittin' in the morning sun
I'll be sittin' when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again, yeah
I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away, ooh
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
Lyrics by Otis Redding
Mount Burgess, 2,599 m (8,527 ft), is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys. In 1909, geologist Charles D. Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale deposit of fossils with fine details on Mount Burgess. The Burgess Shale is a black shale fossil bed (Lagerstätte) named after nearby Burgess Pass, in which are found new and unique species, many in fact constituting entire new phyla of life, and even today some of these unique species have proven impossible to classify. The fossils are especially valuable because they include appendages and soft parts that are rarely preserved. Between 1954 and 1971, Mount Burgess was featured on the back of the Canadian ten-dollar bill. It is still informally called the "Ten Dollar Mountain" as a result.- Wikipedia
Flickr Friday theme -- #Countryside
This is a favourite photography spot for me. I've been coming here for four years and I don't think I have ever seen the grasses looking so green, especially not in August. It's a measure of how relatively cool and wet this summer has been.
It was plenty warm enough today though at 30 C. The cows were mainly lazing in the shade of the tree with a light breeze rippling across the pond.
A friend and I had been walking a trail in a marsh when we heard the song of a nearby Marsh Wren. We watched and waited and after a while, the Wren burst out of the deep cover, moving further into the marsh with no shot offerred. As we turned to move along a flash of colour caught my eye, as this Common Yellowthroat (f) popped out for a quick visit. Always nice to get a chance for a nature sighting, even if it wasn't the one expected.
Big Creek NWA, Port Rowan, ON
Hmm, an original title! I might come up with something better later. This collection was too good to miss with the view beyond in the garden. I am beginning to think I have an old bottle fetish!
I took several variations of this and have edited 3 versions, one with the whole window, one cropped lower showing only three panes, but this was the only one that really worked.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
-- Rumi
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!
This is a single shot, non-HDR. The light was very flat with just a bit of sunlight coming through the clouds. Lighting corrected with Lightroom.
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Highest position: 308 on Thursday, August 28, 2008
Sorry haven't been around, the whole family came down sick and when you have 2 kids sick theres not much time for anything else including sleep
With that in mind
Here's No sleep 2nite