Moon over the moraine...

 

Photo by Barry Wallace

Super Harvest Moon

 over the

OAK RIDGES MORAINE

3 a.m., September 15, 2024

Photo taken from the rooftop 

of Delmanor Retirement Residence in south Aurora

(likely to be visible for a few more nights)

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Barry Wallace

SOLVE THE PUZZLE.....

Amazon rainforests (above)?

or

Aurora Spurge-covered dining-room rooftop

at Delmanor Retirement Residence  (below)?

ALL  three photos were taken from above 

the dining-room roof

at Delmanor Retirement Residence in Aurora.

Photos by Barry Wallace

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Barry Wallace

Aurora evening sky...

Photo by Barry Wallace

No two sunsets ever the same...

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BarryWallace

 

Sunrise - Wemindji, Quebec

                                                                                                          Photo by April Dawn Georgekish

September sunrise ~ James Bay, Quebec

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Barry Wallace

Double rainbow photo by Joey Georgekish...

                                                                                                                     Photo by Joey Georgekish

James Bay - Quebec side

My sister Denise's son, Joey Georgekish, took this photo of a double rainbow over James Bay, in northern Quebec recently.  Great photo, Joey.

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Barry Wallace

Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust to create butterfly display...

Photo supplied by Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust

Last month, the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust embarked on an exciting new project.  A permanent educational display about the biodiversity of the moraine is being developed.  The exhibit  will be shared with school groups and participants for events like guided walks.   The ORMLT has already received some fantastic donations, including five taxidermy fish, a wooden display cabinet, a dear antler, shells, fossils and the amazing butterfly and moth collection.  Anyone with natural history items or display cabinets they would like to donate are asked to contact outreach@oakridgesmoraine.org.   The butterflies were donated to the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust by Phillippa Hajdu.   She collected them in the Aurora area as a child in 1949 shortly after her family arrived in Canada from Britain.

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BarryWallace

Grand River Boat Cruise...

Photos by Barry Wallace

The 'Grand River Belle' boat cruise

A gang of residents from Aurora's Delmanor Retirement Residence boarded the Grand River Belle, moored north of where the Grand River enters Lake Erie, this past Tuesday. The boat route was a return trip, on the river, between Onandaga and the Caledonia Dam (home of Canada's only 9-span concrete bridge).   There are 82 species of fish in the Grand River watershed (that's 50% 0f all the fish species in Canada). The lunch, weather and boating were superb.  Fellow passengers included a large group of seniors from Jamaica.  The boats are docked on Big Creek that flows into the Grand River.   The boat cruises between the town of Caledonia and the village of Onondaga with the Six Nations of the Grand River located along the south side of the river.

Riverboat cruiser 'Len' from Delmanor

Local fisherman

Grand River Dock Repairs

 

Passing a sister riverboat

At left, lunch time musical 

entertainment

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if you wish.

Barry Wallace