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Depends on the Season! Or does it?

What do you enjoy doing most in your leisure time? What I enjoying doing the most seems to depend on the season. Summer involves a lot of hiking, kayaking and reading; winter involves a lot of cross country skiing if there is snow (which there isn’t much of right now!). It also involves a lot of reading. Hmmm, I see a common thread here. Perhaps, it is not a seasonal thing at all… Ok, upon…

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CN Tower

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What to do? What to do?

List five things you do for fun. Reading: I have always loved a good book! Science fiction, fantasy, science and historical nonfiction have been my go to it genres. My latest book is Assyria, an excellent review of now distant civilization often imbued with dread, most likely a result of numerous polemics in the Bible. It was a fascinating read. I was actuallt sad finishing it. Hiking: I don’t…

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Wallace Understands His Privilege

If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be? I would want Wallace to understand that he has a pretty good life! Waited on hand and foot, he leads a pampered existence. Here he is relaxing after a busy day doing what he does: eat, sleep, run around and then repeat. A good life my little grey friend! Wallace reclining

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Kidney Dissection!

Amazing detail in dissected kidneys. Along the renal pelvis to a myriad of collecting ducts coming out of the renal medulla.

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Brian — He Who Arises in Might (oh wait that is another name…)

Write about your first name: its meaning, significance, etymology, etc. Irish, means high or noble, sometimes strong or powerful. It maybe derived from the old irish word for high. Prominent Brian’s include the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru in the 11th century. He defeated the Vikings at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, but was murdered just after while praying in his tent. More recent…

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Back to SCUBA Diving!

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Fungus Among Us

Oyster mushroom sporulating in the lab and then the risotto that resulted. Mushroom growing on the block Gill structure from beneath This bench is black not grey!! Spores like icicles Spores forming more icicles On the chopping block In some olive oil and garlic Risotto in the making

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Albino Raccoon

Dead albino raccoon along residential street in Toronto. A rare animal! I’ve read that the probability of an albino racoon is about 1:10,000, though the chance of seeing one are 1:750,000! I suspect this poor animal was hit by a car and was able to get off the road before dying.

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Violet Coral Fungus (Clavaria zollingeri) along the trail

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Science Books reads for the Summer 2022

Summer science reading thus far and to come! Nick Lane’s Transformer about the deep chemistry of life and death. This one looks at in some detail at the Krebs Cycle. Steve Brusatte The Rise and Reign of the Mammals; somewhat self explanatory. Biography of Nobel Prise winner Jennifer Doudna and a look at CRISPR- Cas9. A book looking to answer the question: what is Life? Biography and research…

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Fungi from Hike along Little Salmon Lake Loop, Frontenac Provincial Park, Ontario

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Milky Way Over North Otter Lake

Some images over the last couple of years of the Milky Way over North Otter Lake. Some are late August and some are early November. Most are exposures of less than 5 minutes using Pentax K1 Mark ii with built-in Astrotracer or the Pentax K-r with accessory Astrotracer on the shoe flash. Typically a wide angle lens 10-17 or 18-55 was used depending on the situation. Summer image of the Milky…

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Gray Rat snake (Pantherophis spiloides) in my mud room last night. Eventually I was able to move him/her along. A seemingly healthy population of this threatened species near my cottage.

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The Odonates of North Otter Lake

A small montage of the more common odonates in and around my dock on North Otter Lake, South Frontenac, Ontario. Orange Bluet (Enallagma signatum) Violet Dancer (Argia fumipennis vioacea) Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis) Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) Slaty Skimmer (Libellula incesta) Widow Skimmer (Libellula luctosa) Black Saddlebags (Tramea lacerata) Dragon Hunter (Hagenius…

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The Comet Neowise: Summer 2020

The Comet Neowise: Summer 2020

The best pictures from the summer 2020 visit by the comet Neowise to the inner parts of the Solar System. Neowise from North Otter Lake, South Frontenac Township, Ontario, Canada; view to NW Neowise with the Big Dipper; view to NW from cottage dock on North Otter Lake, South Frontenac Township, Ontario, Canada.

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Musings on The Nature of Things’ Lucretian

I think I can say, though somewhat tentatively at this point, and with some reservations and caveats, that if I had to choose a philosophical school I would subcribe to, it would be Epicureanism. From my somewhat limited understanding of this philosophy, and clearly I need to delve into it further, it appears to be far more appealing than any philosophy I have been exposed to up to this point in…

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