tough love

Parent banded wood snail pushing baby 'out of the nest' and , unfortunately, off the leaf, as it turned out.


June 2006, Guelph

blue and yellow bracket fungi

Nice pastel fungi.

Starkey's Hill Trail

Arkell Side Trail

We walked from Arkell Road down the Arkell Side Trail to the Eramosa River and back - takes a couple of hours through rolling hills and woods. Nice variety.

Eramosa River

fluttering chickadee

A fluttering chickadee on Anwen's finger enthralls Magali.

Starkey's Hill

reds and greens of fall

The moss was almost fluorescent, the needle carpet felt like walking on a futon.

Starkey Hill Trail

turkey tails

Not sure if these are little turkey tails or something else - started looking through an excellent collection of fungus photos from G Barron but haven't finished yet - there's hundreds!

Starkey Hill Trail

pond grass through the trees

You can see the parking lot for Starkey's Hill Trail in the upper left of this map.


Starkey's Hill Trail

bracket fungus

Bracket fungus at Starkey Hill.


Starkey Hill, near Arkell

chickadee

There's a magical spot along Starkey Hill Trail where, if you stop, be quiet, and hold your hand out - black capped chiackadees will come and sit on your hand.
Sarah demonstartes her technique to Magali.

Starkey Hill Trail

orange fungus

Starkey's Hill Trail

Highway 9

near Mildmay

foggy night

Foggy night to walk the dog.

Guelph

flashback

Songs lyrics and memes from the 60s and 70s painted on one of several colourful 'boutiques' in a pretty river town where some buildings are built on stilts over the water.


August 2006, Bear River, Nova Scotia

white pop up

Made by Alec Sutherland


Guelph

morning mist

August 2006.


Bayfield Inlet

Magali and Anwen

Magali and Anwen

Guelph

Goldie Mill

North Garden of the ruins at Goldie Mill.

Guelph

St Agnes School

Looking up the Cork Street hill as the sun sets through the windows of St Agnes School.

Guelph

Griot's Journey

If you're interested in African storytelling, dance and drumming check out Griot's Journey by Adjwa and Fule Badoe at Afroculture.com


Guelph Youth Music Centre

a picture of a picture of you

Sarah and I standing in front of our portraits at Greg Denton's Anyone Lived, 2001


Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph

waves of grain

The Arboretum, Guelph

veins of gold

The Arboretum.

Guelph

frozen red

Frozen red maple in the pond at the Japanese Garden.
The Arboretum, Guelph

Beaver Crossing

One on our new Beaver Crossing signs - defaced by vandals. You can see the construction going on as they build the new overhead beaver crosssing - built so we can salute the crosssing beavers on our drive past in the morning.

Guelph

Kissing Bridge Trail

Watch the curves...


north of Guelph

Monarch food spawning

A trail handy to the north end heads northwest along a rail and electrical right of way - starting where Edinburgh ends at Woodlawn.

Guelph

George Bush Pumpkin

Gareth Lind's wonderful George Bush pumpkin.

Guelph

Hallow'd wee uns

Tonight princesses and fairies, angels and a white baby sheep carried by her papa and lots more came to our door - treating us.


Guelph

interesting light

The early morning sun, angled low and beneath the dark cloud ahead, put an interesting light on the robotic powermen and on Sarah facing the sun in a seemingly Munch-like Scream posture.

Kissing Bridge Trail Map

changeable

Walking along the Kissing Bridge Trail, north where Edinburgh meets Woodlawn. Intermittent sun, wind, rain, sleet.

Guelph

magenta sunrise

Between Teviotdale and Harriston.

alec, anwen & martha

Late 80s. Photo by Sarah.

spooky tree

Guelph Radial Trail

red mushroom

Guelph Radial Trail

aurora and magali

My granddaughters. Photo by Anwen.

Guelph

heather

My great grandfather emigrated from Caithness Scotland after the rough times of the early 1800s. He would send money back, the infamous 'letters from America', and in return they would send him heather.

Liverpool Street, Guelph

fairy ring

"Initially a spore (the fungal equivalent of a seed) lands on some suitable ground. It starts to grow underground, pushing out mycelium (fungal threads) in all directions. As the mass of mycelium grows the central part dies off, leaving a disc of mycelium growing at the outer edge..." more here



Guelph Radial Trail

spooky fungi

Guelph Radial Trail

one of my favourite trees

Guelph Radial Trail

Boat at Digby

Looks like a cormorant resting on a boat (perhaps put there by the tourist association) in the bay at Digby. Nice town. Beautiful area. Kitschiest window displays in the province.

August 2006, Digby, Nova Scotia

lichen

August 2006, near Bayfield Inlet

still morning

A quiet canoe slipping through the still morning.

August 2006, Bayfield Inlet, Ontario

cotton top

A few days ago we had a freak snowstorm.
At least I hope it was a freak.

Guelph

banded wooly bear caterpillar

Getting ready for a winter sleep, these banded wooly bear caterpillars will become Isabella tiger moths in the spring.

near Eden Mills, Ontario

muted river

Eramosa River, near Eden Mills

heath aster

These small white asters are still blooming into October.

near Eden Mills, Ontario

shale beach at Craigleith

"A growing demand for artificial light led to the establishment, in 1859, of a firm headed by William Darley Pollard of Collingwood. He erected a plant here to obtain oil through the treatment of local bituminous shales. The process, patented by Pollard, involved the destructive distillation of fragmented shale in cast-iron retorts heated by means of wood. The 30 to 35 tons of shale distilled daily yielded 250 gallons of crude oil, which was refined into illuminating and heavy lubricating oils. The enterprize, the only one of its kind in the province's history, failed by 1863. The inefficency of its process made its products uncompetitive after the discoveries of "free" oil at Petrolia and Oil Springs, near Sarnia." - Historical Plaques of Grey County

Craigleith Provincial Park

magali eating grass

Hmmm, rabbits can do it. Maybe just need to get that appendix working better.

near Eden Mills, Ontario

bucolic

near Eden Mills, Ontario

cool clear water

Craigleith Conservation Area