Memories of 21, 42, 63 ... the 84th meandering

greetings from eastern ontario !
another suny day - some showers expected over the next several days .

a view of LAKE MAZINAW - about an hour's drive north of the shore of eastern lake ontario .
lake mazinaw is part of the canoe routes used by the algonquins to travel from the eastern part of ontario/quebec to the upper great lakes .
many pictographs can be seen on the rocks at the lake's watermark .
always worth a day trip - particularly in the early fall when colours are at their best .



Canadian Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921) was an original: suffragist, journalist, radical believer in free love and birth control, and fan of spiritualism and Walt Whitman.
she operated a camp and hotel for artists and lovers of nature at lake mazinaw .
she was devoted to WALT WHITMAN and had part of the rockface dedicated to and inscribed in his honor - the rockface can be easily visited by boat .



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hbg

An interesting study of James Bay at wikimedia and your trips give me a greater idea and understanding of how the lakes and rivers flow through Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bay

Moose Factory looks like a super place to visit and learn about inuit traditions. hbg, you must tell us more about inuit writings on the canyon walls!

Thanks Beth and mr hbg.


Sue, good to see you posting again. Spring is quite a busy time of year. Today managed a bit of trimming - but allergies won the round.

Congress has a very long way to go before we'll see a significant reduction of greenhouse gases. In California, offshore drilling companies are petitioning the state. Appears cars will be depending on fossil fuels for many years - {to hear the oil companies explain the process}| amazing




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Encarta Map of James Bay
http://encarta.msn.com/map_701513451/james_bay.html

hi , stradee !

to satisfy your interest in "pictographs" at mazina lake (they are also found elsewhere) , i'll show just one picture and the GOOGLE images site - there are several pictographs on those pages - don't stop on the first page ; the following pages show many more pictographs .

the pictographs were created by the ALGONQUINS :
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin )

the ALGONQUINS have pretty well become integrated and will not often wear a "ceremonial" dress - as shown here :






not by the INUIT (of the arctic and tundra) :
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit )

INUIT of canada - in "ceremonial" dress


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now back to MAZINA LAKE and the PICTOGRAPHS :

the "official" name of the mazina lake provincial park is BON ECHO LAKE - because of the splendiid echo created when shouting across the lake at the rockface

http://www.ontarioparks.com/ENGLISH/bone.html

pictograph of NANABUSCH (i think it means "the mischievious one" ) :



more pictographs :

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLJ_enCA233CA233&um=1&q=ontario+bon+echo%2Bpictographs&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20

hope you enjoyed the excursion !
take care !
hbg

Sue - good to see you posting here again.

Stradee - I think you'd love the area of Ontario heading north from where hamburger lives - up past Mazinaw through some of the last old-growth forests - into Temisakaming - then up to James Bay.

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Beth, the terrain i've researched, plus what mr h explained with pictures and links, is just phenominal. Canada rocks!

Thanks for all the info, hbg! Lovely photo of mrs hbg also.

Walt Whitman trivia: one of the first "urban explorers" {groups of people who explore abandoned buildings and sites}. The Poet, in 1861 was a reporter for a newspaper in Brooklin. He wrote about exploring the abandoned Atlantic Avenue subway tunnel, dug in the year 1844, the first of its kind - but seventeen years later, it was obsolete. In 1980 another explorer discovered the same tunnel, which had been blocked off for more than a century.

Coincidently, i'm reading a novel that mentions Walt Whitman's explorations.

Then i googled 'urban explorers' where there are numerous links to check out, and information explaining what urban exploreres do, types of gear, places they've seen, etc. Interesting.

Good earthturn wildclickers

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that's for sure : canada has plenty of rocks !
an old friend/rockhound of mine visited some years ago from germany .
he always carried a little "prospecting" hammer and a bag to collect rocksamples where ever we went .
flying across newfoundland/labrador and northern quebec when coming back from europe , there are rocks - rocks - and more rocks ... and hardly a soul living there .
flying out at night is somewhat of a strange experience . once the plane has crossed over quebec city , there isn't much light to be seen - except for some small mining comunities - until one reaches europe in the morning .

national geographic published a map of "the world at night" last year - i'll see if i can find it .
take care .
hbg

here is a NASA map : earth at night - northern canada at the upper right - a pretty dark place

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html




The landscape of the Mealy Mountains in Southern Labrador is greenery, rock cliffs and an assortment of falls that cascade down the mountain range.
The Mealy Mountains are located in the wilderness of Southern Labrador :

Hey hey

Oh " I had frogspawn on 21 March " and you could see them tiddling away "



but we had a couple real cold nites... and I reckon something must’ve happened then " have got quite a few frogs in the garden " but haven’t seen the teeny littly ones ......... mmmmmmmmmmm

(tadpole turned into a toad!)



Got of lot of wooly hatching going on here - cutie petooties
http://able2know.org/topic/89445-200#post-3628341

and I thought you folkises would like to share this " the Eden Project on Thursday ...along the road and down a bit....









Pics over here..............

http://able2know.org/topic/111721-671#post-3628359

http://picasaweb.google.com/izzielzzie454/EDENSPRING09Copy# (not sure if link works tho)

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hi izzie :

great pictures !

we are finally getting a bit of rain . even though it's cooler by several degrees , the daffodils have decided : YEA , we like rain and they are starting to open up .
hbg

Izzie, great pics - explanation re the tadpole.

Great pics also, hbg - thanks a million.

We've had company from Mississippi - gotta be careful to not place any extras P's in that state.

You perhaps remember the storck nest I wrote about ...


... well, perhaps I might post post some pics of little baby storcks in a couple of weeks (I took these photos last week) ...

closing for the night by inviting you to a SPIRIT WALK at PETROGLYPHS PARK - about 2 hs. northeast of toronto in the kawartha highlands - a wonderful place to visit and experience the native spirits .

http://www.eagle.ca/VictoriaInn/spiritwalks/petroglyphs-park.html





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Beautiful photos and info, izzie, hbg, walter - good reading and links.

Working outdoors past three days, Spring trimming, etc. Lovely weather.

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Good morning!

I hope everyone is having a lovely spring day.

Here's a photo from the Life magazine archives of a salesman 'demonstrating' spring hats





and don't you know I have that very hat (in pink) down in the basement

we certainly have a lot of them in the garden . quite delightful to see them scratching and picking up every last edible tidbit .
hbg

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Walter - it would be most interesting to see the storks. Thanks........

And, hbg, that is most interesting - it would be great to visit such a site. Thanks for the link.

Great clicking all.

Good reading all! spent some time outside this afternoon, wrapped in a sleeping bag, reading and listening to a small dog snore - that's a good spring day to me.

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yawning

Beth, now that's selling product!


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I only hope that no underaged come here ...

Pitter, patter, slow rain today.

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