Moose Pond

This is the weir where the out flow from the Moose Pond is measured. I went to look at the weir while I waited for the Great Horned Owl family to return to the pond. The first pictures I took were out of focus. I hadn't realized I had changed one of the settings on my camera making it very difficult to get a photo of the owl family, two adults and three youngsters.

A very small Great Horned Owl atop a very large rock. Orange Hawkweed. One of the youngsters atop a Birch snag.

the very large rock again looking very much like a dragon. Tree roots looking very much like antlers and a wee Painted Turtle basking on a log in the morning sun.


A shy Daisy .............................rock guys built from rocks blown apart to form a ditch along the road and a Daisy with strange petals.

A dead Garter Snake with amazing colour.... a Blue Flag ........ a mourning Cloak Butterfly resting on a squashed Snapping Turtle.

Loop Trail June 12

A close up of a very busy anthill. I am fascinated by ants in their communities. The surface area of this anthill is about three feet by four feet.

A Mocassin flower.......................a moth on a Bluebead flower................... Pale Corydalis flowers over Star flowers.

The out flow of Scummy Lake shot while standing on the weir and a close up of the middle section.

A Bog Rosemary flower..............an old Jack Pine snag still standing after being burned in the forest fire from the early 1980's and a close up of the tree.

The weir at the outflow of Lake 6661............The reflection on the pond before the weir of the monitoring structure.

Swallowtail Butterflies feeding on owl pellets...........a White Violet flower nestled in Sphagnum Moss.

Pussy Toes flower...............Wild Strawberry flower.................Cinquefoil flower

The one rock guy to survive the joy of a two year old derived by knocking down rock guys. On that stretch of the road I had built about twenty rock guys.

sunday morning june 12

a hybrid Iris a Wild Rose Moccasin Flowers
the wild Irises won't be blooming for a month or so.

these pictures show the Pine pollen in Lake 240. the dark area in the third picture is the shadow cast onto the sand bottom of the lake. on some of the lakes the wave action deposited the Pine pollen on shore as thick as three inches.

a Bee flew into this Wild Rose just as I took the shot. a Bee on a Leatherleaf Flower.

these pictures show the "detritus" on the lake bottom in the shallows. I also like very much the interplay of water and sunlight.

I love the way the sunlight highlights certain areas of the lake bottom. the second picture is a close up of the upper right portion of the first picture. and last but certainly not least is a close up of a Dandelion ready to blow its seeds.

tree and rock

two rock guys

a study of the late afternoon light on a large birch tree.

more flowers

wild rose.........................................................cinquefoil

orange hawkweed................................lupin not indigenous but lovely none the less

my favourite daisy