Random November pictures

From November_09

From November_09

From November_09

From November_09

Red!

From October_09

Yelllowknife dancers

Curved shadow

From September_09

September_09

Pipe

Tupperville Elevator and Detail

Crisscross

Driftwood faces

From Driftwood

Toothless face?

From Driftwood

Leaping Squirrel?

From Driftwood

Sleeping Bunny?

From Driftwood

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Church yard

From SceneTTL

From SceneTTL

From SceneTTL

Merging Rows - Newly Planted and Fully Grown Views

Daydreaming farmer?

Bee Bait

Imagine the evolutionary trail plants followed as they sought to share pollen. Sensing the availability of sunlight, wind and insects in a way totally foreign to us - and without the benefit of our five senses: sight; hearing; touch; taste; or smell. Yet adapting to attract external organisms using visual, olfactory and taste appeal. Amazing.

Meadow Jellyfish

Deliberately moving the camera during a long exposure can give interesting effects. The pictures below use the white flowers shown in the first photo to convey abstract form and motion:

Water line

This spillway is used to divert water during peak flood periods such as spring run-off. The rest of the year it remains a big empty ditch. Dry spells shrink the green area to its deepest section, showing where the last bit of moisture remains.

Yellow explosion

In the Green

These swans, seen here feeding in algae, are part of a growing population of mute swans living in the wild on the St Clair River. Each year a pair commandeer a nearby Ducks Unlimited pond for nesting. Their territorial aggressiveness appear to keep ducks and geese from nesting on the same pond, much to the chagrin of the Ducks Unlimited people I would imagine.

Something noteworthy is how fast the cygnets grow. The seven in this June 2009 picture are only about two months old, and are already nearly the size of a full grown mallard.

Eireau Canada Day

Somebody set up this rather odd - and apparently clothing optional - commemoration of Canada Day. As found in a parking lot sand dune, Eireau Beach July 1, 2009.

Fence post

The twisted wires, textures and rust, old paint and colours. Fences: reminiscent of frontiers and symbolic of so many of life's aspects. At once both still life and allegory.

Best viewed large, naturally

Fence post test

Just to see how this blogging works ...