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

  By Pondhawk on July 30, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

• Milky Way Over North Otter Lake

  By Pondhawk on July 29, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  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… Read More ›

• Parasite of the Blue Dasher

  By Pondhawk on July 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  It started with a dropped mite. Literally, a mite dropped onto the book I was reading. Dropped from where I quickly asked? From the dragonfly that had briefly landed on my book. I identified the dragonfly as a Blue Dasher… Read More ›

• The Odonates of North Otter Lake

  By Pondhawk on July 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A small montage of the more common odonates in and around my dock on North Otter Lake, South Frontenac, Ontario.

• The Comet Neowise: Summer 2020

  By Pondhawk on April 15, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The best pictures from the summer 2020 visit by the comet Neowise to the inner parts of the Solar System.

• The End of Everything

  By Pondhawk on January 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52767659 Excellent book! Very much enjoying her style and humor while she teaches about the Ultimate end of it all. If you had to summarize it: enjoy the journey because the destination is bleak. Somehow Katie Mack makes this destination… Read More ›

• Musings on The Nature of Things’ Lucretian

  By Pondhawk on October 19, 2019 • ( 0 )

  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… Read More ›

• Testament to Erosive Power of Water

  By Pondhawk on July 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  A few pictures of the Victoria coast along the Great Ocean Road. A testament to the tremendous erosive power of water. Views at or near The Twelve Apostles, Port Campbell National Park, Victoria, Australia.

• Lunar Eclipse on a Cold Winter’s Night

  By Pondhawk on March 1, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  January 20th was already very cold to start with and the night promised to be even colder. Bitter is the word that came to mind. With temperatures hitting minus 25 with a projected wind chill of -35 degrees Celsius, it… Read More ›

• Contact! Contact! My Musings on the Hunt

  By Pondhawk on October 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Consider Thoreau’s stirring words: ‘think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, —- rocks, trees, wind in our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact!… Read More ›