28 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Chairs, Cottage, Haliburton Lake, Nature
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campfire, colourful, Cottage, Haliburton Lake, muskoka chairs, Nikkor AF-S DX Micro 40mm 1.2.8G, Nikon D3100
Colourful Muskoka chairs at the cottage. A perfect way to spend a summer’s day. Then sit around the campfire having s’mores and marshmallows! Now that’s how to relax!
26 Tuesday Jun 2018
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Chinese Lantern, colourful, flowering maple, flowers, Indian Mallow, Nikkor AF-S DX Micro 40mm 1.2.8G, Nikon D3100, red, yellow
This plant has many names. Flowering Maple, Indian Mallow, Chinese Lantern. The leaves resemble the leaves of the Maple Tree. Indian Mallow is because it is part of the Mallow family. Chinese Lantern because of the shape of the flowers that are long lasting. Here in the northern hemisphere it needs to be brought indoors before the first frost and can be put outdoors after the last frost. It is pretty to look at! It would add colour to any garden.
21 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Leaves, Nature, Rouge National Urban Park, Tourist Attraction, Tree Roots, Trees, Vista Trail
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Nikon D3100, Rouge National Urban Park, Scarborough Ontario, Sigma AGO DG Zoom-Macro 70-300mm, Tourist Attraction, Tree Roots, trees, Vista Trail
On the Rouge Urban National Trail, Vista Trail which is about 2.7km one way. There is a stretch of the path that is nothing but tree roots. Probably about a half K in length. This is what that path looks like. Oh did I mention that I twisted my right ankle! Surprise! I was busy looking up with my camera in my face and not where my feet were traveling.
19 Tuesday Jun 2018
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clouds, Florida, golf course, mauve, Nikon D3100, pink, Sigma AGO DG Zoom-Macro 70-300mm, sky, sunset
At RW golf course, I got to see many sunsets. This was one of them! I visit here a couple of times a year and always found watching the sunset a great time to sit quietly and just enjoy Mother Nature showing off her colours as she calls it a day!
16 Saturday Jun 2018
Posted in Australia, Bird Kingdom, Canada, Nature, Natures Creatures, Niagara Falls
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Australia, bird, Bird Kingdom, Crimson Rosella, Niagara Falls, Nikkor DX VR 18-55mm, Nikon D3100
This bird is in the Bird Kingdom in Niagara Falls Ontario. The Crimson Rosella is a native of Australia. They are 12 1/2″-14 1/2″ {32-36 cm}. They are often seen in gardens and orchards eating cultivated fruits in place of their basic diet of tree seeds.
14 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Black Creek Pioneer Village, Canada, History, Nature, Tin, Tourist Attraction
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Black Creek Pioneer Village, Lamp, Nikkor DX VR 18-55mm, Nikon D3100, Tin, tools, Toronto Ontario, Tourist Attraction
Some places describe the past. Black Creek Pioneer Village brings it to life.
Before we had electricity, moving water was the engine that turned the mill wheels of rural Canada, grinding grain into flour and providing a focal point for Ontario’s early communities. With the mill perched at the side of the stream, it wasn’t long until stores, a tavern, and a blacksmith shop were built nearby. Houses, a church and a school quickly followed. Over the past 150 years, most families have moved away from the land and into cities, leaving behind a way of life that defined early Ontario.
Four decades ago, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) created a small agricultural community at Toronto’s northern edge that honours the ways of our early settlers. Today, Black Creek Pioneer Village offers you a fascinating journey into the past – into the way people lived before cars, digital technology and the dominance of urban culture separated them from the land.
Black Creek is a working village, typical of those established in south central Ontario between the 1790s and the 1860s. At Black Creek you are invited to escape the modern world, and experience Ontario’s rich rural heritage.
This is from the website of Black Creek Pioneer Village
12 Tuesday Jun 2018
Posted in Bars, Clouds, Distillery District, Nature, Reflections, Sky, Tourist Attraction, Window
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Bars, clouds, Distillery District, Nikkor DX VR 18-55mm, Nikon D3100, sky, Toronto Ontario Canada, Tourist Attraction, Window
It was a cold day when I was at the Distillery District. I found the place very interesting but busy. I kept darting into the buildings to get warm and because they are buildings that have an old world charm. As the name implies these buildings housed beer and liquor making enterprises. They have since gone out of business or were bought out. I may go back at some point when it is not cold or crowded.
07 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Canada, Conservation, Nature, tree
This is another view from inside the hollowed out tree. The inside is not burned, it is a weathered brown.
02 Saturday Jun 2018
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Asian Swallowtail, black, butterfly, Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory, Famous Nature Quote, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nikkor DX VR 18-55mm, Nikon D3100, white
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
