Me, Boomer and The Vermilon River: August 2013

A lot to cover in this post. So its a long one. The last post was about Manitoulin Island, a place as opposed to wildlife,not that it isn't filled with wildlife.
Boomer's death left a huge gap in my life; hence the new camera and the accessories to shoot video, and the video online seminars. I even walk a little dog who otherwise would get no exercise. I've re- found my interest in cooking and baking, although I leave that mostly for the winter.
But we've got a little group that wants to travel around the north by bus or whatever. So Friday, we're off for a cruise of Lake Nippising, the fourth largest Lake in Ontario. I just want to set everybody straight. Ontario, is an enormous, and diverse place geographically.Northern Ontario even has a time change, and is larger than the combined states of California, Texas, and Alaska. I don't make these comparisons to brag,merely to give you an indication of where I am, and when I say its a big lake, it is a big Lake. I'm not being negative to the other provinces because the same could be said of them all. So I'll be posting more travel adventures. I'll just link this page to my second page for my adventure post.

Red Berries

It has been cool, and then, hot and humid so lots of the warm sunshine flowers are back while at the same time, the forest is showing some fall colour.

Goose in Flight

On the left, Blue Vervian, but I'm trying to figure out if this is purple loosestrife, the invasive plant. We combat it here by using insect predators.

In the last wildlife post Ken pointed out that the raptor shots were a falcon, but maybe a Peregrine instead of a Northern Harrier. All the ID shots in the beginning are courtesy of Cornell. Opposite is a Peregrine.