cyan spring

Headquarters Conservation Area, near Hanover, ON, March 2010

Mill Street

Neustadt is becoming a very funky village.
Neustadt, March 2010

untitled

Headquarters CA, March 2010

nature, red in tooth and claw

This deer carcass is a couple of months old now - and picked fairly clean by whatever carnivores took it out or happened upon it.
Eramosa River, March 2010

twins

Walkerton, March 2010

sulphur springs

"The Sulphur Spring is a constant flow supplying water to the Headquarters streams and ponds. The flow never varies in velocity and would be capable of filling 27 bathtubs with clear cold water every minute. The temperature of water also never varies, it remains at 9 degress C, thus never freezing in the winter."
Headquarters Conservation Area, March 2010

ice wall

Hilton Falls, February 2010

lunch time

It's interesting how these chickadees will come and eat from your hand even when there are numerous other piles of seeds lying around. They seem to genuinely like being fed by people.
Hilton Falls, February 2010

soft ice

Hilton Falls, February 2010

ice & green rock

Hilton Falls, February 2010

chickadee-dee-dee-dee-dee

Sarah, Jane & I hiked out to Hilton Falls today and met some friendly chickadees on the way.
Hilton Falls, February 2010

macondo snow

Macondo Books: favoured haunt for unique second hand books: warm words and cool people.
Guelph, February 2010

cone/twigs

The Guelph Radial Trail is now blocked at the Eramosa River dam by new fencing put up by the city - hopefully people we be able to resume their hiking soon.
Guelph Radial Trail, February 2010

it was almost sugar time..

...till old man winter remembered that Wiarton Willie wanted to sleep a bit more. Photo by Sarah Farquhar.
Mountsberg, February 2010

snow man...

...with a mohawk
Guelph, February 2010

bark

Smith Property AKA Guelph Radial Trail, Guelph, February 2010

uprooted #2

Guelph Radial Trail, February 2010

uprooted

Guelph Radial Trail, February 2010

almost sugar time

Rockwood CA, February 2010

icy falls

Hilton Falls, February 2009

chickadee and dogwood

Hilton Falls, February 2009

sisters on the road

Rockwood, February 2008

tew's falls

near Dundas, February 2009

snow fort

Two years ago we had a lot more snow than we do now.
Guelph, February 2008

valentines

Guelph, May 2007

tree hugging

Guelph Lake, February 2010

trunks

Guelph, February 2010

snow angels

Guelph, February 2010

limestone & ice

Rockwood, February 2010

icy needles

Riverside Park, Guelph

flocking

The Sky, February 2010

eramosa river

February 2010

stumped

Eramosa River, February 2010

petroglyphs at rockwood?

I'd never seen these petroglyphs before - and can't find anything about them on the net. I wonder how old they are?
Rockwood Conservation Area, February 2010

wood from rock snow and sun

Rockwood, January 2010

not random enough

Guelph

how to make yourself more attractive

"A team of scientists at Oxford has shown that a simple word label can profoundly alter what we think our noses are telling us. When an experimental subject is given odorless air to smell but told he is smelling cheddar cheese, his olfactory areas light up in hungry anticipation. But when the same air arrives with a "body-odor" label, the subject unwittingly shuts down the smell areas of his brain. Although the sensation hasn't changed - it's still just purified air - the mind haas completely revised its olfactory response. We unknowningly deceive ourselves." ~ Jonah Lehrer
Guelph, January 2010

groundhog door

near Eden Mills, January 2010

alec's socks

It takes a long time to knit a sock with over ten thousand stitches. This is a slipper - the white stiches are loops of wool inside which eventually felt together.
Guelph, January 2010

ani's homegrown sprouts in rice paper

Guelph, January 2010

reindeer

Guelph, January 200?

beach rock

Joggins, Nova Scotia, August 200?

four years old today

Guelph, January 2010

rock, wood & snow

Rockwood, ON, January 2010

walking on the river

Eramosa River/Rockwood Lake, Rockwood CA, January 2010

the mill pond...

..at Rockwood Conservation Area.
January, 2010

frozen lake

Rockwood Lake is frozen now.
Rockwood CA, January 2010

Some Tips for Guitar Players

1. Picks Are NOT a Good Investment: When visiting a music store resist the temptation to purchase five picks - four of them will disappear with a week - you will hold on to that last one for over a year or more. Get one.

2. Be Careful of that G String When Changing Strings: The end of a G string embedded in the fleshy part of your thumb or a finger is painful. You can get away with accidentally pushing the end of the bass strings and the B and E will probably just bend, but the G string will go in to the bone. Just saying.

3. The Dreaded F Chord: The F chord is likely the first chord you'll encounter where you have to simultaneously play two strings with one finger - and they're both on the f-ing first fret! Ouch! It's not totally necessary to learn the F chord though, unless you enjoy the sense of accomplishment this painful endeavour brings. F chords are why capos were invented.

Guelph, January 2010

cowgirl

Guelph, 2009

missing tree

Someone chopped the top off of a very large tree this Christmas.
Speed River, Guelph, January 2010