feeding time

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,

not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. ~ William Feather

Weekend Reflections

shifting

"Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope

- a slight change, and all patterns alter."

~ Sharon Salzberg

SkyWatchFriday

K is for Kajama

The Kajama is a three masted schooner available for cruises around Toronto harbour

ABC Wednesday

bar headed goose

I'm not sure how this Himalayan Goose got to Southern Ontario, but he seems to be alone and flightless and living with the swans on the Avon River in Stratford.

MyWorldTuesday

Chemung River

Rain drips over the mountains, cars travel over the bridge and a bird flies over the river.

SundayBridges

sunset on the beach strip

Know where to find the sunrise and sunset times and note how the sky looks at those times, at least once.

~ Marilyn vos Savant SkyWatchFriday

J is for jukebox

Put another nickel in
In the nickelodeon
All I want is having you
And music, music, music

C'mon, everybody
Put some nickels in
And keep that old Nickelodeon playing

ABC Wednesday

a covered bridge

The Main Street Bridge in Galt has been covered with a wide variety of knitted fabric made by over 1500 volunteers, most local, but some from as far away as Australia and New Zealand..About 16,000 plastic zip ties hold thousands of knitted and crocheted afghans, scarves, socks, pot holders and hats to the concrete bridge. The installation will be up until Sept 27 when all the pieces will be laundered and donated.

SundayBridges

just passing through

An egret seems to be dancing in Bronte Creek. We checked our guide books and decided this was definitely not a white heron. I have never seen an egret in these parts before and he was pretty far away, so I was thrilled to get this clear a shot of him.

WeekendReflections

nature’s eye

The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye ~John Dryden SkyWatchFriday

I is for irreplaceable insulbrick

Insulbrick was a common asbestos or asphalt siding used between the 1920s and the 1950s. It is unusual to see whole houses still covered in this irreplaceable (as in no longer manufactured) material and now that that the elderly owner of this house has passed on, it is doubtful we will see it for much longer.

ABC Wednesday

HMSC Fredericton

The upper decks of the HMSC Fredericton under gloomy skies as it visited Hamilton last week. The frigate is on a tour of the Great Lakes as part of a recruitment and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Canadian Navy.

MyWorldTuesday

under the bridge

There is a walkway along the Grand River with an underside view of one bridge and a path to the other.

SundayBridges

fly a kite

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” ~ Anais Nin

(a little like blogging, don’t you think?)

SkyWatchFriday

H is for hawk

a well fed red tailed hawk, by the looks of him!

ABC Wednesday

lazy days of summer

"There's a time each year
That we always hold dear,
Good old summer time;
With the birds and the trees'es
And sweet scented breezes,
Good old summer time,
When you day's work is over
Then you are in clover,
And life is one beautiful rhyme,
No trouble annoying,
Each one is enjoying,
The good old summer time."
- Lyrics by Ron Shields, In the Good Old Summertime

MyWorldTuesday

Bridge St

Seeing both directions on Bridge Street in Corning, New York.

Sunday Bridges

log rolling

WeekendReflections

under a violet sky

"cover me over in dusk and dust and dreams. cover me over and leave me alone. cover me over, you tireless, great. hear me and cover me, bringers of dusk and dust and dreams." ~Carl Sandburg

SkyWatchFriday

monarch

in the waning days of summer, the butterfly drinks in its beauty