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#Pugwash #NovaScotia #NorthumberlandStrait #JPegsFolder

A very minimalistic shot. Weather is lifting along the ocean. The water is the bottom third of the image and along the horizon, we can see a white boat moving right. In the foreground an orange, round marker buoy is the only colour in an otherwise grey and white scene. Clouds are white and grey and are reflected onto the water.

Feeding frenzy. A school of something came close to shore.

#ScarboroughBluffs #Gulls #Cormorants #JPegsFolder

Looking down on water from a high vantage point, we see a lot of gulls and cormorants diving, circling, making a frenzy in the water.

I later saw eggs in the nest, then the nest vanished, along with a few red-winged blackbirds' nest.

#Grackle #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder

A grackle is standing in a nest built in the midst of cattails.

Pretty in pink?

The windmill was dismantled in 2019. It apparently had reached its end of life, at 20 yrs.

#PickeringNuclearStation #Ontario #JPegsFolder

A nuclear plant occupies the middle of the image, with sky above, water below. It's a cloudy sunset, the clouds look bluish grey with tinges of pink and this is reflected on the water. Clouds at the horizon, though have parted, to allow the nuclear plant to be bathed in pink. To the right, a white turbine is is also visible.

This is the trail she was walking (previous image). If you look along the coast, there are 5 indentations. I took that photo at the third, with 5 being the farthest..

#Prospect #HighHeadTrail #JpegsFolder

Looking along ocean coastline. It's granite along the water and green peatland farther back. The water is very blue and white caps show a wind is blowing. The sky shows a layer of mist over the blue.

The little dog that could. 😀

#Prospect #HighHeadTrail #Dachshund #DogsOfMastodon #JpegsFolder

A closeup of a rather rotund dachshund, with a smile on her face, walking over a granite boulder.

I wonder if she saw herself or could watch the people inside...

She was an orphan found by a couple of people walking their dog before finding her home at the zoo. She died at the age of 13.

She did have a lot of fun and it was always a joy to spend time watching her dive, play, slide...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9626814/toronto-zoo-otter-death-talise/

#Otter #Talise #TorontoZoo #JPegsFolder

Looking straight down on a river otter positioned vertically, with her nose inches away from a pane of glass that separates her pool from an indoor viewing area.

If anyone fancies themselves a duck expert and knows better, I am happy to be corrected, but the best I can do is claim these are Blue-winged teals.

In this light, they look dark expect for the white on top of their wings, and in a few, a white patch on their faces can be seen.

This was taken in a July along the Northumberland Strait part of Nova Scotia.

#BlueWingedTeal #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder

Interesting blue-grey clouds dominate the sky, breaking along the horizon to show the warm colours of sunset. The colour is reflected onto the water. On the far side of the bay, we see a forest of mostly fir trees. Flying low over the water is a huge flock of ducks, which are mostly dark in this lighting, with bright white patches on the tops of their wings.

#PollysCove #NovaScotia #JPegsFolder

It's a bright, but hazy day. The sky is very soft blues mixed with white. The landscape is granite ground, surrounded by grasses and other hardy coastal plants. Ahead, huge granite boulders look to be randomly placed on the granite and grass. The granite is pale grey, but shows various lichens making their home.

#HighwayPhotography #PEI #JPegsFolder

A bright red umbrellas is sticking up from behind tall weeds on the other side of a sidewalk, with ocean on the other side. It's a bright, hazy day, pale blue sky with white clouds.

Don't you love the big weird things along highways, meant to draw your attention?

#HighwayPhotography #JPegsFolder

A huge red strawberry is standing in a green field with a blue sky behind it. Said berry is smiling broadly and pointing with a white hand.

From a walk around the train tracks in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

A friend used to use "see you on the other side" as a catchphrase, so this caught my eye. One day, I hope to see him on the other side, should that be a thing. :)

#Sign #JpegsFolder

A black sign with white and yellow letters that read: "Welcome to the Other Side of ea_y Restaur_nt." A few letters are missing. In the lower corner is some white graffiti.

It used to be that hay bales were all rectangular, so when I see them these days, I snap a photo. :)

#HayBales #HighwayPhotography #JPegsFolder

A field that has rectangular-shaped hay bales. Beyond the hay field is a forest. The foreground of the image is blurred due to the car travelling highway speeds.

There are 3 turtles visible in this image. :)

#Turtles #JPegsFolder

Looking through cattails, we can see a turtle basking on a log. The log and turtle are beautifully reflected in the still water. There are two turtle heads poking up in the water: one above the log, to the left of the basker; one under the log, to its right.

3 years later.

#WhiteLion #TorontoZoo #JPegsFolder

A majestic male white lion, glorious mane, is standing on snow, looking towards us, lit by the orange sky of the sun setting behind him.

I was sad to learn that Fintan, the male white lion who arrived a few years before the tawny lions died (they were alternated in the visible enclosure during their overlap time) died in Dec. He was 13. Here's a photo of him and one of his lady companions when he was still a youngster.

#WhiteLion #TorontoZoo #JPegsFolder

Two young white lions are basking in the sun atop a green hill. The lion to the right has the bare beginnings of a mane and is looking right at us. His female companion is laying to his left, eyes closed, enjoying the day.

Snow? What snow?

Because I grew up "knowing" that male lions have manes and females don't, I thought for too long that Jerroh (seen here) and his brother, who had a lovely main, were a male and female. But...both were born in the Toronto zoo and there were no plans to breed them, so they were...fixed. This generally results in no mane. Lindy managed to be an exception. Both boys lived to 15 yrs. Lyndy died first; Jerroh, not long after.

#Lion #TorontoZoo #JPegsFolder

A lion is laying on snow, looking very relaxed, one of his front paws resting over the other, casually human watching.

Closer to the end! Getting darker, so I am not stopping to set up my tripod. :)

#LeslieSpit #ThommyThompsonPark #Toronto #JPegsFolder

Similar to the previous shot, but we are zoomed in closer to the city. The water and foreground trees are in darkness, the sky is much darker, still with the orange tint along the lower part of the image. The city lights are much brighter in contrast to the darker sky, more are turned on, and the CN Tower is now sporting blue lights to show it off.

A red-winged blackbird pretending to be a wren. :)

#RedWingedBlackbird #BirdsOfMastodon #JPegsFolder

A male red-winged blackbird is perched on the end of a cattail, which is bending towards the right under it's light weight. The bird is facing right, its tail feathers pointed up to the sky, similar to a wren's.

This is one of those landmarks I photograph most times when going east in the summer. It marks, "we are so close to the end of the long drive." It's in New Brunswick, really close to the turnoff to the sketchy road that takes us into NS. There are a pair of horses that live in the barn, but on this day, they were inside or somewhere else. :)

#HighwayPhotography #NewBrunswick #RedBarn #JpegsFolder

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