Et tu, Joseph-Arcade?

I posted this to a friend's page as a joking example of the war on Christmas, but I found people actually complained about Vachon bakers saying using 'fêtes/festive' rather than Noël/Yule Angry letter to Sherbrooke newspaper
J'ai posté ceci à la page d'un ami comme un exemple blagueur de la 'guerre contre Noël', mais j'ai trouvé que les gens vraiment se plaignaient  de Vachon, qui disait 'fêtes / festive' plutôt que Noël / Yule
Lettre en colère au journal de Sherbrooke

Boat in snowstorm, Christmas, 2017

It looks mysterious

Mississagi, Lower Lakes Towing Ltd, anchored in St. Lawrence, Christmas Day, near Glen Walter, Ontario

Merry Christmas

Santa takes a break

Ad using Donald Trump's face, facebook 2014

Now it's a cabinet recruitment tool

Home Surgeon

Don't have time to go to the hospital for Gallstones? Home Surgeon to the rescue!

12:12 12/12

Holy meaningless coincidences! It's 12:12 12/12!

Sunset, December 2017

Always spectacular sunsets this time of year

Contrails near the Canadian border

Contrails from two jets near U.S. border with Canada over St. Lawrence. Maybe the dick pic skywriting with the US Navy over Washington State earlier this month was just an unfortunate coincidence? I couldn't find these jets on air traffic websites so I assume they were military, probably practicing interception.

Last roses of the year

Bye Bye Bob Mugabe

I remember in 1980 hearing a man in Canada holding up a newspaper with news of Mugabe's election and saying to his friend "That's good news - my dad says Bob Mugabe's  the best politician in Africa today!". And he was saying it with an Afrikaans accent!  Like  Aung San Suu Kyi you can't tell what an opposition leader will be like if they haven't held any office before.

Frankenly shocked!

Al Franken, 2017

Photo by Stephanie Moreno/Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications for Peabody Awards/University of Georgia, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

"Pee-wee Herman: There but for the grace of God go I." Al Franken as Stuart Smalley, Ironic quote of the day.

Mae West Sex

 I knew an elderly man who said he did wardrobe for Mae West's Broadway play "SEX", which she was arrested for in 1927 - he said they didn't show anybody having sex, but in one scene where it was implied that they were, the two actors just left the stage empty for a few minutes and let the audience imagine it.

I'm flying to Mexico!

double-crested cormorants Cormoran à aigrettes

Yellow Rose Macro

Fall Colours 2017

Maples

Rainbow, Marina 200, Cornwall

 Glengarry Campground

Algoma Harvester in St. Lawrence, Adirondacks in background

Mushrooms, trail, Charlottenburg Park

Mushrooms

Rose Macro

Campfire rose macro

Cicada

Cicada, maybe Neotibicen canicularis?, Lancaster, Ontario, October 7, 2017

I've been Shatnered!

I'm actually pretty sure that really is young Shatner! The background looks a lot like the St. Lawrence, so I did a search on Google to see where it was taken. Since it's been misidentified on Pinterest, Google is guessing it is a teenage Jackman.

https://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/914309134824046592

Beaver

New Moon on Monday, with Venus

Japanese Doll

Four dollars at flea market

Fisheye Fun

St. Raphael's Ruin with 6.5mm fisheye lens

Infrared of vines growing of overhead wires

950nm filter

Akwesasne Pow wow 2017

Some cross cultural artifacts

Make America Native Again T-shirts

Hello Kitty Star Wars Imperial Storm Trooper Beadwork

Two more Hello Kitties in beadwork

Bag of Holding Dungeons and Dragons with Haudenosaunee Flag

More traditional:

Large basket being made in mold from black ash strips

Dancers having some traditional and not traditional food

Dancer with baby 

The harvest begins...

One of two passion fruits I've got - other is still ripening and is bigger.

Not really a lot

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy, Sandbanks Provincial Park. Note the white berries and leaves which can turn red - only about 30 cm/ one foot tall.

Herbe à puce, Parc provincial Sandbanks. Fruits blancs, feuilles qui peuvent devenir rouges - seulement 30 cm/ un pied 

Northern flying squirrel

Northern flying squirrel (found dead) (Glaucomys sabrinus), near Cornwall, Ontario, c. 2000

Double Rainbow, Lion's Head, Ontario

Around 1998

P. J. O’Rourke, 1995, Toronto

P. J. O’Rourke, 1995, Toronto. Geddy Lee of Rush was in the audience!

Solar Eclipse, August 21, 2017

Greatest amount of sun covered by moon from where I was, 2.39 pm EDT - sunspots visible on left.

Earlier at 1.47 pm, showing several sunspots

It did get noticeably cooler and dimmer at maximum - the colours didn't change, just dimmed, so more like being inside on midday rather than evening.

Tiger and Patch

Tiger and Patch, early 2000s - Tiger was a male but didn't seem to mind other cats.

Refugees

Saw refugees from the United States who just arrived, one woman with little girl, wearing their best dresses on Sunday as they walked around the place the government had placed them. It must be awful to arrive in an unknown place and not even be certain they can stay.

Bees dancing in visible hive

Bees in a visible hive, Williamstown Fair, August 13, 2017

Storm Days

Shelf cloud before thunderstorm

CSL St-Laurent goes down river through thunderstorm

Did a German photographer use 16 cameras and wait 62 days to get a photo of the sun and the full moon together that won't be seen again until 2035?

 No, a German photographer didn't use 16 cameras and wait 62 days to get a photo of the sun and the full moon together that won't be seen again until 2035. 

"Oak Kisses" by Bess Hamiti

Is the above photo a real one-shot of the sun and the moon? Naah!

This photo has been 'borrowed' by some on social media with the claim that it was taken by a German photographer with 16 cameras, and he had to wait for 62 days for some reason, and it "can be only seen again in 2035." 

It's impossible for the sun and the full moon to be on the same side of the sky, as explained in this Spanish article. The full moon has to be on the opposite side of the sky - when it's on the same side of the sky it's the new or dark moon. The photo was made from three separate images of the sun, the moon and the trees by Bess Hamiti, who is a photographer but not German, using Photoshop, as he explains in this video:

Hamiti uses the same pair of trees in other photo composites seen in his gallery.