Crow Takes Wing

Awakened to These Canada Geese Gliding By on Oxtongue Lake, Ontario

Hawkweeds Identified

Hieracium aurantiacum, orange hawkweed; also called devil's paintbrush; 

(not to be confused with Indian paintbrush)

Hieracium caepitosum, yellow hawkweed

Pitcher Plant in a Bog along the Spruce Bog Boardwalk Trail in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

After the Rain, Oxtongue Lake, Ontario

That Little Place by the Lights, Huntsville, Ontario

The best!

Group of Seven Outdoor Gallery at Huntsville, Ontario

Petawawa Gorges, original by Tom Thompson

At the center of the centennial celebration of Tom Thompson's (1887-1917) life and death at Canoe Lake in Algonquin Provincial Park is Huntsville, Ontario.

Here are three of the many large replicas of Tom Thompson and Group of Seven paintings seen in Huntsville. Many others are at Oxtongue Lake; inside the Park; and at many other towns in the Muskoka region.

 Northern Painting 25, original by Lawren Harris, 1924

Northern River, original by Tom Thompson

Tom Thompson at Huntsville, Ontario

One of the very best of Canadian artists, Tom Thompson, 1887-1917, rose just ahead of the Group of Seven. He led many Canadian artists right into Impressionism using scenes of the wilderness north of Ottawa and Toronto Ontario as his subject matter.

Here he is painting The West Wind. The statue is in front of the Civic Centre in Huntsville, Ontario.

Muskoka Cloud from Henrietta's Pine Bakery in Dwight, Ontario!

My special thanks to William Kendall for this superb recommendation!

Those are cranberries!

O Canada!

This morning, Oxtongue Lake.

Sunrise This Morning Over Oxtongue Lake, Ontario

First-timer at Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, Ontario

The Beautiful Sight from the Visitor Center in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

The Iridescence of a Peacock

Have You Wondered About How the Backside of a Peacock Looks?

Peacock Rattles His Plumage to Warn Off Other Birds

April and Tajiri

Zebroid and Zebra

Greenhouse of Hanging Baskets at Oliver Paine's Greenhouses

Chicadee Pair Hatched Three Chicks (who fledged while we weren't looking)

Rural Minimalism

Bouncing Bet and Last Year's Teasel and Mullein

Macro...Pink and Blush

Macro...Pink

Baldwinsville School Bus Shelter

Brick Beauty in Baldwinsville

Shed in Baldwinsville

Painted Barn in Baldwinsville

Rural Greek Revival in Baldwinsville

Old Silo In Baldwinsville