Helena G. passes through double rainbow

 Helena G., Bulk carrier from Portugal passes through double rainbow in St. Lawrence

Helmut Oberlander, former member of Nazi Einsatzgruppe, dies

 

Sicherdienst arresting people in Poland. Oberlander was a member of this organization,which was part of the SS, in occupied Ukraine, Source:  German Federal Archives, via Wikimedia Commons

 

When the story broke in 1995, the Toronto Star sent me to his house - he'd decamped to his condo in Florida, but the CBC found him there. One of his neighbours offered to let me set up cameras in a room that overlooked his house! He never gave any support in Canada to neo-Nazis, but I did go to his trial and some of the people in the court who seemed to be there to support him definitely had pro-Nazi sympathies, verbally attacking some of the German witnesses as traitors. I sat with Professor Gunnar Boehnert , a Canadian Mennonite who spent the war years interned in Germany with his parents who were missionaries, and we heard some of the audience making some obvious anti-Semitic remarks in German. Einsatzgruppe is another one of those innocuous words that the Nazis used to disguise their actions - it sounds like it means an 'assigned task group' but they really were death squads that murdered Jews and others in occupied eastern Europe.

CBC story: Helmut Oberlander has died in Waterloo, Ont.

Red Fox Vulpes fulva fulva Renard

 Little red fox, eyes were swollen yesterday, was at my front door today and looked better. Red Fox Vulpes fulva fulva Renard

Sign of backward times

Actual sign with a quote from Maxime 'Mad Max' Bernier,  leader of the People's Party of Canada, who recently spoke at an anti-vax rally. Embarrassing.

White Calla Lily

 

Turkey crossing road

 

Cicada exoskeleton

Exoskeleton of Dog-day Cicada,  (Tibicen canicularis), which lives two to four years underground, climbs up a pole or tree and sheds its skin and emerges as a flying insect. 

 

Anti-vaxxers outside hospital

 There were about 200 people outside the local hospital protesting against vaccination mandates. In some places elsewhere in Canada the protestors blocked access to patients and staff. At a later protest, one person tested positive for Covid-19.

Moon and Venus over the mall

Moon and Venus over the mall. Looks like the moon is a bow and Venus is an arrow shot from it.

Gladiola Field

Gladiolas in a field near Sandbank Provincial Park, Bay of Quinte. The gladiola is named after the gladius sword used by Roman gladiators.