Friday, June 13, 2025

Turkey tom mating display


Turkey Tom mating display - female is following him. The mating season is coming to an end. Meleagris gallopavoDindon sauvage
 

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


Some of the people who have been evacuated from Sandy Lake First Nation are in Cornwall. I passed by three teenagers near the hotel where they're staying. "Hi, Have a nice day" said one to me, even though it was evening. 
 

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.