Actually I am in this photo but just as a dark reflection in the store window. Well, in a couple of hours it will be December and you know what that means - time to spend everything you've got and some you don't.
If you're coming up blank maybe an electric butter dish would be the thing. Only thing worse than overdone toast is hard butter.
Douglas Street, Guelph
"Badlands is a geologic term for an area of soft rock devoid of vegetation and soil cover that has become molded into a rolling landscape of rounded hills and gullies. Such areas are rare in Ontario and this is one of the best examples. They exhibit the reddish hue of the Queenston Shale that forms them. It is the presence of iron oxide in the shale that accounts for the red colour. The narrow greenish bands that can be seen throughout the shale are due to the change of red iron oxide (iron III) to green iron oxide (iron II) brought on by the circulating groundwater. The relatively soft shale is essentially clay and easily eroded by water." - torontohiking.com
The Cheltenham Badlands
I wish it were spring in the world.
Let it be spring!
Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap!
Come, rush of creation!
Come, life! surge through this mass of mortification!
Come, sweep away these exquisite, ghastly first-flowers,
which are rather last-flowers!
Come, thaw down their cool portentousness, dissolve them:
snowdrops, straight, death-veined exhalations of white and purple crocuses,
flowers of the penumbra, issue of corruption, nourished in mortification,
jets of exquisite finality;
Come, spring, make havoc of them!
- D.H. Lawrence
Riverside park, Guelph
My friend Nik Cherry has an extensive fossil collection - a lot of them from Rockwood. This is one he gave me which is now sitting in our garden.
Guelph
On the banks of the Eramosa River near Eden Mills - home of the popular writers' festival.
Eden Mills
Knox Presbyterian Church with Church of our Lady behind.
If you throw a stone in downtown Guelph it'll richochet off a few churches before hitting two songwriters and three yoga teachers.
Guelph.
Like many of the Niagara Escarpment conservation areas Rattlesnake Point is laced with crevice caves. These fossils were on the side wall of one I ventured into.
Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area.
Over 12,000 flags were woven into the organic orchard at Ignatius Centre, each representing a Guelph citizen opposed to the construction of a Wal-Mart in the midst of cemeteries and a retreat centre.
Ignatius Jesuit Centre, Guelph.
Blue Flag, wild iris or fleur-de-lis. Resist the urge to eat the roots - they're poisonous.
Killarney Provincial Park.
An injured great horned owl being cared for at the vet school.
The University of Guelph.
From River Bride - a dance/story by Adwoa Badoe at War Memorial Hall.
Other photos I made that evening are here.
The University of Guelph.
Worn by the rain, wind and sun.
Sand hill at the Synder's Flats Conservation Area.
For Photo Friday
Bloomingdale, near Waterloo, Ontario
Looking north towards Crawford Lake with Rattlesnake Point on the right.
Mount Nemo's crevice caves are popular with explorers.
I'm reading an excellent book by Michael Gordon called Rock Watching Adventures Above and Below Ontario. A blend of geology/nature/history and hiking/caving guidebook.
Mount Nemo Conservation Area
the summer sounds of the laughing breeze
are locked inside the dreams of bees
Liverpool Street, Guelph.
As a young teenager I accompanied my uncles on their rounds of getting grain milled. I also got to visit sawmills and can remember the cutting smell of damp sawdust and the sweet dusty smell of dry milled grain. I wrote a song which mentions visiting this mill.
Walter's Falls
Yes, they see me coming then pretend there's something interesting like under the water. Or maybe they're just tired and it takes less energy to sit like that.
Speed River, Guelph
