The Cheltenham Badlands "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."...more
Bruce Trail, June 2008
In less than a 100 years we've progressed from throwing bricks and hammers to launching nuclear ICBMs capable of killing pretty much everything. Who said the past didn't go anywhere.
Great War Flying Museum , June 2008
Ror & I checked out the Great War Flying Museum on Father's Day. Lucky for us there were several aircraft oot and aboot. Worth the drive past Acton.
near Brampton, June 2008
Are Glooscap and Prince Henry Sinclair one and the same?
Is the Holy Grail buried at Oak Island?
Lots of speculation worthy of a Da Vinci Code type novel in Holy Grail Across the Atlantic
Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, August 2007
Atelen Liberona - Falling
Beginning in a cocoon suspended high up in a tree, a creature probes her shell and eventually emerges as a blood red body twisting and turning and falling down the silken strings.
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, June 2008
These red trilliums had huge leaves - larger than your dad's right hand.
Arboretum, Guelph, May 2008
Trout Lily is out now at the Arboretum if you're quick.
These are pollinated by ants and can take seven years before they eventually flower.
Arboretum, Guelph, May 2008
SMF models her anti-thong.
Halifax, 1958
We stumbled through our praises:
To you we sing
And happpiness we bring
To celebrate your birth
An angel here on earth
