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Red sun in smoky sky framed by pine branches
Forcipomyia eques
A green lacewing with parasitic biting midge Forcipomyia eques attached to its wing.
View from the Eagle’s Lookout over the north channel on a windy, cloudy day with a shower in the distance. A clay scree slope lies below the cliffs and waves roll onto a strip of beach leading to the Cape Robert lighthouse
Rocky beach with waves rolling in backed by conifers and a clay scree slope in the middle distance, located on the north shore of Manitoulin Island in Sheshegwaning First Nation
Male bobolink in tree
CP24 article with “Rowntreet Avenue” (should be Rowntree)
Male scarlet tanager
View from a hill along a hunting trail off Two Island Lake Road
Blueberry Mountain lookout with bench
Your muted words: poetry in tags; Excludes users you follow (Also i am muting charlie kirk)
Northern harrier flying
A grassy wetland in spring with hills behind it
5 large clear bags full of trash sit beside a white shed
Vesper sparrow, Pooecetes gramineus perched on a bare tree branch
Sightengine says 99% chance OP’s image is AI generated
Brendan Fraser in The Whale
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Golden crowned kinglet, Regulus satrapa perched on a red pine branch
Blurry photo of a surprised beaver belly flopping into water
Snowy driveway and pine trees
Lower Madawaska River on a sunny day in late winter with dried grasses in the foreground and a channel of meltwater just getting started on the ice
Some trees
Bare trees in a snowy forest
Palm of hand with burn blep (blister)
Let them fight meme from World War Z
The image is 97% likely AI generated
Conifer brain, Naematelia encephala, on a fallen tree trunk suspended over water
Cover of the book All That the Rain Promises, and More…: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora. Cover photo features a man in the forest dressed in a tuxedo, presumably the author, holding a trumpet and a large mushroom in his hands while grinning in a demented way
Looking northeast across the Ottawa River from Deep River, Ontario toward Quebec
Tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor, fly in strong wind on the Leslie Spit in Toronto
Cedar waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum
Ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus, in a snowy forest
Hologram moth, Diachrysia balluca on a wild sarsaparilla leaf. Spotted July 2024 in the Ottawa Valley
Snowy forest in daytime
Cribraria tubulina slime mould on rotting wood
Clockwork Orange eyes held open meme
Montana Six-Plume Moth, Alucita montana
Small waves roll onto a rocky beach at Barrie Island Nature Preserve on Manitoulin Island, August 2025
Po looks out the window in younger days
Man wearing protective gear gives a thumbs up while holding a chainsaw
Devil’s urn, Urnula craterium, in eastern Ontario, Canada
CNN article “Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders”, Oct 13, 2025 by Matt Egan
Water and islands with pine trees and fall foliage in the foreground near Skootamatta dam
A view of low hills in fall with a distant river
Slate Falls rapids at low water
Bluesky screenshot showing @yankees.com is blocked
Monty the lost dog sniffing some roadside gravel while wearing a cheap harness and leash we bought from the gas station
Dark, misty trees with three red canoes overturned on rocks along a riverbank
Cardinal flower blooming among joe-pye weed
Curled up black-and-white sawfly larva of the species Tenthredo grandis on a leaf. This is a photo of my computer screen, the original will be published elsewhere
The view from Tramore Cliffs today
Promachus bastardii, the false bee-killer, is a giant robberfly that hunts other large insects. This is a photograph of my computer screen, the original will be published elsewhere
A green lacewing perched on a plant stalk with rare parasitic biting midge Forcipomyia eques attached to its forewing. This is a photo of my computer screen, original photo will be published elsewhere
A dense cluster of pink lady’s slipper orchids (Cypripedium acaule)
A gas station ad for a cashback card, and someone put googly eyes on the lady in the photo
1885 DYNAMITE EXPLOSION On September 4, 1885 James Simmons and George Morton were hauling a load of dynamite from Tweed to Burleigh Falls Ontario with a horse drawn steel rimmed wagon. The dynamite was to be used for opening the Trent-Severn Lock at Burleigh Falls. They stayed overnight at a hotel in Indian River, Ontario and proceeded the next day toward Burleigh Falls via the Douro-Otonabee Township line and current Hwy# 28. At approximately 9:45 AM the area residents and the entire area were alarmed by a large dynamite explosion on Highway 28 approximately 4.1km North of County Rd# 4. Messer’s Morton and Simmons were never seen again. Ten-foot deep craters were found at the site of the explosion and the horses and wagon were found lying 50 feet on each side of the craters. Only fragments of the men, horses and wagon remained. They were described as ‘’mangled beyond recognition’. Pieces of wood and steel from the wagon were found 100 to 200 yards away. The blast was heard in Lakefield and at distant places including Peterborough, Warsaw, Young’s Point and Madoc. Large crowds soon gathered around the explosion site some searching for remnants of the victims. ‘Every few minutes something more fresh and sickening befell them’. More than 1000 people and 300 carriages visited the site. Erected by the Township of Douro-Dummer with support from the Ontario Heritage Trust.