Walden Ponderings

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• Hiking the Gibson Lake Loop, Frontenac Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada

  By Pondhawk on October 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

• Hiking in Frontenac

  By Pondhawk on October 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A photo montage of a recent hikes in and around Frontenac Park, Ontario, Canada.

• Bird Courses

  By Pondhawk on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  I highly recommend the online Ornithology courses that Cornell University offers through the Bird Academy. The courses are very well laid out and can be taken at your own speed. I am in it the midst of two — a… Read More ›

• Research at the Wet Collection

  By Pondhawk on July 23, 2018 • ( 0 )

  One of the most fascinating exhibits, that also serves as a functioning research room, is the Wet Collection of the Museum fur Naturkinde, in Berlin, Germany. This room is huge housing thousands of bottled specimens of preserved animals from around… Read More ›

• Dragonfly

  By Pondhawk on July 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A juvenile Slaty Skimmer?

• Over Toronto

  By Pondhawk on July 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Flying over Toronto, heading into Pearson. A Beautiful city!

• Over Greenland

  By Pondhawk on July 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Spectacular views from flight over Greenland. You can see a bit of the icecap in some of the pictures.

• Wandering in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

  By Pondhawk on July 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Some pictures of interest in the museum in Berlin. The large insect models were something special as was the room referred to as the Wet Collection. Dramatic fossils of a T-Rex (aka Tristan) and the original Archaeopteryx .

• Fox Down the Lane

  By Pondhawk on July 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Small baby fox along Birch Point Lane, South Frontenac Township. What did the fox say?

• Living in ‘The Now’ to ‘Breaking Through’

  By Pondhawk on May 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I look at my toe and foot and realize that someday both will have no flesh, becoming simply bones made primarily of calcium and various other elements and compounds. The numerous foot bones will become disarticulated and will themselves slowly… Read More ›

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