Turkey Tom mating display - female is following him. The mating season is coming to an end. Meleagris gallopavo, Dindon sauvage
Mark Bellis
Hi all, journalist photographer, Blogging since 1996. Written for Toronto Star, Cité Libre, Toronto and Ottawa Sun and Ottawa Citizen. email markbellis@spamcop.net, enjoy! All content copyright Mark Bellis, and other copyright holders unless where noted.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Polaroid Swinger Model 20
1965 commercial, theme sung by Barry Manilow, with a young Ali MacGraw
Thrift store find - the Polaroid Swinger came out in 1965 and had a viewfinder that had a small panel in it that would turn to 'YES' when you adjusted the exposure by the red knob. I remember a student took one to Man and His World on our class trip sometime in the late 1960s or early 70s.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Daddy-long-legs
Waiting for me at the mailbox. Daddy-long-legs or Harvestman, probably Opilio parietinus, according to Google Lens. Completely harmless and not a real spider (body not segmented into three parts)
Sandy Lake
Sandy Lake
By Morganbentham - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18175204
Friday, June 6, 2025
Red skies from fires
Red skies from the fires across Canada - some of the fires are supposed to be 'zombie' fires, ones that kept smoldering under the snow during the winter. South East Ontario, June 6, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
African Dancer
African dancer closes presentation by the Cornwall-SDG International Afro and Diversity Festival on “ LA STIGMATISATION DE LA SANTÉ MENTALE AU SEIN DE LA COMMUNAUTÉ IMMIGRÉE” (Stigmatisation of Mental Health Treatment in the Immigrant Community) at the Saunders Hydro Dam Visitor Centre, Cornwall, Ontario May 31, 2025
It was a presentation about the difficulties immigrant face accessing mental health care. The conference presenters were Africans and Arabs. I found it interesting that they closed the conference with a dance led by a single woman. I wondered why white Canadians didn't. I went to a meeting in a Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) longhouse and they did incorporate dancing into the meeting.
Monday, May 26, 2025
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