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Candis
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I like to take photographs. Be safe, be kind.
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I was just out doing the same thing!
View of northern lights in sky through deciduous and evergreen trees. White snow on ground. The left sky is green and the right side is pink.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Quick update: Joey has been exceedingly delighted. We have had so much snow (it finally stopped this afternoon) we had to get the snowshoes out yesterday. Here’s a collage from the last two days.
Series of 4 photos: Top left - Snowy image of a pond, snow-covered evergreen trees in the distance. The water is partially covered by snow but a large dark area near bottom of photo shows some tree reflection. Top right - A snow covered path through deciduous trees. A man and a dog in an orange safety vest are seen in the middle of frame in the distance. Bottom left - A view looking down to the ground, legs in dark coloured pants to snowshoes. The ground is covered in snow. Bottom right - A view of a pond, water is dark against the snowy banks bottom, left and middle frame. The trees on the far bank are bare and snow covered and some are mirrored on the pond water.
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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J and Joey just went out for their night walk and Joey was in fact delighted. Apparently he ran the entire way and J is now trying to recover. 😂
White snow covers the bottom and right of the photo — covering a driveway and steps. There is a man with flashlight and a leashed dog in centre frame going into the distance. They have made tracks in the snow. Snow is still falling and can be seen in the light of the flashlight.
November 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Here are a few from our lunch walk.
A dirt path leads into the woods. The deciduous trees are mostly bare, so the small rolling hills are visible. A med-large fawn-coloured dog wearing a bright orange safety vest sits to the right of the path. A view of a small beaver pond, with lots of brown grasses growing in clumps taking up much of the water. There are deciduous trees on the left and right side of the photo, most without leaves. The sky is cloudy, but there are some light blue spots peeking through. A view looking across a bigger beaver pond. There is a row of evergreen trees on the far bank. The sky is cloudy and grey and it is reflected in the water. A view from the dam on the big beaver pond. There are banks on both sides of the photo — left side evergreen trees, right deciduous trees without leaves. The sky is cloudy and grey, and reflected in the water. There are downed leaves and pine needles collecting up against the dam seen on both bottom corners.
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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It’s looking pretty bare in spots now, and with the cloudy sky today the woods look very November-ish. I’ll take a photo to show you after our lunch walk, but have to update you on the 👽 flower: fully open front and side views and one of the little bud still hanging on with petals peeking out now. 😲
Paphiopedilum orchid flower taken face on. The flower petals are white on top, green sides, and a brown slipper/bowl. Green leaves on the bottom of the frame. The photo is blown out to focus on the flower, but in the background you can see blurred brown leaf-covered lawn and a bit of a beige house to the right of frame, trees in distance. The same paphiopedilum orchid flower from side view looking down into the reddish brown-coloured slipper/bowl. There are small brown hairs and dots on the green petals. Blurred green leaves at bottom of frame. A close-up of the second paphiopedilum orchid bud on the original stalk. It has formed a sturdy stem. The white of the petal can be seen poking out the top of the green and brown mottled bud casing. The bud is circled in red with an arrow and the words: white petal peeking out!
October 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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@aferguson.bsky.social Shocking discovery today: I was checking out the paph orchid flower as it’s opened up now, and it looks like there is a second flower on the same stalk — that’s never happened before! I’m not sure if it will mature or wither and fall off, but what a surprise to see.
Photo of paphiopedilum orchid flower (white and yellow-green in colour) on a brown stalk secured by a clip. Between the large flower and the clip a second smaller bud is circled in red.
October 19, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Haha, that’s so funny and also WONDERFUL. 🤗

The paph flower is opening now — here’s how it’s looking this afternoon:
A collage of two photos: the left is a close-up of a white, green and brown paphiopedilum orchid flower. The petals are opening and you can see a hint of the yellow inner cup and dark brown spots. On the right is a full photo of the orchid flower on a stake and its green leaves in a white window.
October 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Oops, getting back to this late! No, we didn’t get out as it was a bit too chilly with the winds. Maybe this w/e as it’s going to be warmer, but we’re getting some rain so we’ll see how it goes. This was how it looked on our lunch walk though — definitely beautiful!
A leaf-covered path on the right of the photo leads into the woods in the distance. The grasses and small plants in the foreground and left of frame are a mix of greens, oranges, yellows. The trees in the distance are mostly deciduous and the leaves have thinned so the blue sky is visible. The trees also are greens, oranges, and yellows.
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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It’s been a nice fall here despite the lack of rain. Just smells so nice in the woods. How is it looking there by your place?

I got a nice photo of Joey in the window seat this weekend with his collar off (after a thorough tick check, boo). Plus the ’alien’ flower is blooming again. 👽
A fawn-coloured med-large dog sits on a beige covered window-seat. The walls are green, and there are orange leaves down on the ground outside, with trees with a mix of green and orange leaves along with bare tree limbs. A paphiopedilum orchid sitting in a window with a bloom shoot growing, though the bud is still closed.
October 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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That doesn’t sound too bad, especially if you were able to do it all outside!

It was so beautiful yesterday, so we went out then. (I cooked the turkey dinner yesterday, so leftovers today.) I think tomorrow is going to be warm again, so that might be the last of the season. Here are some photos:
A person and a fawn-coloured dog wearing a red life jacket are on a paddle board left of frame looking into the photo at another person standing on a paddle board, paddling into the distance. The sky is blue with a few clouds, some of the far leaves have lost all of their leaves, some are still changing to orange. The photo is sort of blurry as it was taken through a protective waterproof case. A carpet of leaves on the ground — orange and brown and yellow maple leaves are covering the ground under the tree they fell from. There are still some leaves hanging on the trees around the woods, but it is thinning fast. The sun is shining top right corner of the frame. The tall deciduous trees along the big dam at the beaver pond have almost lost all their leaves. The bank/ground under the trees looks orange from the fallen leaves. The trees are reflecting in the still water of the pond. The sky and water are blue. The resident barred owl spotted sitting on a branch of one of the shorter trees in the woods that still has its green leaves intact.
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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It is so nice! Speaking of Joe-Joe … we had a late morning paddle today and I brought my phone cam.
A fawn-coloured med-large dog, wearing a red life jacket, lying on a blue and orange paddle board. Two legs in black leggings and pink neoprene socks on either side of the board. Dog is looking to his right. The image is streaky/cloudy as it was taken through a water-proof pouch into the sun.
September 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I found this photo of us starting the trek.
A med-large fawn-coloured dog steps onto a metal walkway with railings on each side, back legs wide, gingerly testing the stability. A man is standing to his right holding a leash. Rocky cliff with evergreen trees can be seen in the distance.
September 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I do regret not going out now. Here’s something to maybe make you think less of my laziness 😄: we’ve been paddle boarding every morning since the beginning of August. It’s been so much fun. Joey has only fallen in 2 times, and I’ve been able to haul him back on board myself without tipping!
A collage of two photos: top one of a fawn-coloured dog wearing a red life jacket lying down on a mostly blue paddle board, on a lake and heading towards shore with green trees. Bottom photo of same dog on same board sitting up and looking right. The lake water is calmer and there are green trees on both sides of a gap between parts of the lake.
September 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Luna moth on the house this morning. We saw one two nights ago late at night, so feeling particularly lucky to have seen two of them this year.
A green-hued moth roughly shaped like a triangle with dangly bits of wing hanging at the point. Based on the shape I’m guessing it is a male. (The female shape is more open, with four distinct wing spans). The front of this moth is lined in a brown colour, and has 4 coloured spots on its wings that look like eyes. The brown front feet and yellow antenna can be seen peeking from under the wings. This photo is a close up of the head and upper part of the body and wings. The body has white and wooly-appearing longish hairs. Soft white hairs line the edges of the inner part of the green wings. Three of the four eyes are visible in this photo. The moth is resting on a beige wooden wall. A fuller view of the Luna moth, resting on a beige wooden wall. The moth is mostly green, with white body, and brown outline on the top of the wing span. The moth is approximately 3 1/2 to 4 inches across.
June 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Still not too much happening yet — some of the trees have flowered and the moss and grasses are greening up. But today at lunch I spotted this on one of the bushes: 🤗
A photo of a thin branch in the foreground with an unfurled fuzzy green leaf emerging from a bud. A hand is out of focus in the background, used to help focus the camera lens on the bud.
April 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Ah yes, not here yet. But mosquitoes have arrived. Boo. Oh, the turtles are out! There were two on the road coming home today. First turtle sighting of the year. I helped them over to the ditch on the other side of the road.
A small painted turtle (approximately 6” long) walking on a paved road. It is dark grey colour, and its head, feet, and tail are visible.
April 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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A few more photos. Really sad to see the limbs with new buds lying on the ground.
Broken branches with new spring buds lying on the ice covered ground. New buds from the trees encased in ping pong ball-sized ice lying on the ground after the ice storm. Chunks of ice, some a couple of inches long, lying on the ground after falling from the trees once it started to warm up. Thick ice accretion on a tree limb and its new buds that were forming.
April 2, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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And a propane camp stove for cooking so we did okay. No internet obviously and the cell towers were really spotty, so limited signal throughout. Glad it’s over, but unfortunately another storm is coming this afternoon. Snow and more freezing rain. 😟 Was really pretty in all its destruction though.
A man in a green coat is examining a fallen tree on a driveway, brought down by an ice storm. A dog walks down the ice-covered driveway towards him. All the trees and the ground are white, covered in thick ice. An ice-coated deciduous tree bends over a driveway, a man behind it examines it, a dog in the foreground watches. An ice-coated deciduous tree bends over a driveway. Multiple evergreen limbs are lying on the ground. Everything is coated in ice. A large dead deciduous tree on the ground after falling from the heavy ice accretion. Multiple branches litter the ice-covered ground. A mixture of evergreen and deciduous trees in the background.
April 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Beautiful skies. Love the one with the moon peeking through. Just back online and catching up here. Had a very bad ice storm this weekend and power was out for over 30hrs. So many trees came down. Constant crashing is falling limbs and trees. So much ice!
Ice accretion 3/4” thick on tree branch in focus, ice covered ground and house in background.
April 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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I haven’t posted many photos here lately, but I got a good one of Joey the other day!
A med-large fawn-coloured lab-mix dog sits in front of a picture window, his deer watching spot. There is a dark green wall behind.
March 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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I was thinking about that your visit today—how fast things have changed in such a short period of time. 🫠

Still lots of snow, enough to keep wearing the snowshoes. Lots of melting, but the packed trails are about 6” deep or so. The pond iced over again as it was down to -10C/14F this morning.
A winter scene of a snow-covered pond to the right, with a snow-covered beaver dam just to left of centre frame. There is some open water beside the dam’s edge. In the distance, there are a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees. Snow covers the ground. A man in snowshoes and a dog climb up the far bank of the pond into the trees.
March 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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2008! Wow, wouldn’t have thought that long. I found 2018 in my Dropbox folder which I can access with the iPad (haven’t pulled out my computer and HDs so not sure what we’d have in those).
A photo of a mostly water, grey in colour, with a few green rushes on the bottom right corner. In the water (which is the Ottawa River in Ottawa Canada) there are a number of ducks (~10) floating bottoms up in the distance. In the foreground to the left is a heron hunting for food.
December 16, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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What a lovely colour! I did the same with some nasturtiums and they are also flowering now.
A pot of nasturtium‘s sitting on a windowsill. There is a flower in the middle of the frame and is a bright orange colour. It is surrounded by round green leaves.
December 11, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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They are quite active! And you can see their tracks in the snow so you can tell where they’ve been. I took this photo of it just now on our lunch walk. You can kind of see where the water is open and there is a sort of channel out to the bank (follow the arrows).
A photo of an iced over pond, with snow covered clumps of grass scattered throughout. There are bare deciduous trees and evergreens on the far bank. The sky is grey. There are red arrows pointing to an open area/pathway through the iced over pond leading from a beaver lodge (a small hill made of sticks and grasses also covered in snow) located just right of middle of frame to the far bank of the pond.
December 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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Winter has arrived in our neck of the woods and it looked magical yesterday morning. Joey is so happy to have the snow back—he was leaping for joy and rolling around all through the woods on our morning walk. #photography #winter
A view of an ice-covered pond, with many clumps of snow covered dried grass mounds throughout. The photo is framed by snow covered bare deciduous tree branches on the top left and right. The sky is filled with white/grey clouds and is blue in spots. In the distance the rising sun (behind the photographer) is lighting up the tree line and bank of pond. These are a mix of deciduous and evergreen trees. This pond is the home of a beaver family. You can’t see it in this photo, but on the far side of the pond is their lodge and many of the deciduous trees around the edge of the pond have been nibbled on or taken down by the beavers over the years. A view of snowy woods, with bare trees covered in snow. The clouds in the distance are at the tree level but there is bright blue sky up top as the winds are blowing the clouds overhead. In the middle of frame in the distance a man is walking further into the woods. On the right of frame a fawn coloured medium-large dog wearing a bright orange visibility vest is leaping onto the snow covered path. A wooden statue of a bear is covered in snow. The bear is tall, around 7 feet, and between two tree trunks also covered in snow. A fawn coloured medium-large dog is rolling in snow near the edge of a pond covered in ice. He is wearing a bright orange visibility vest. He particularly likes to stick his face in the snow.
December 6, 2024 at 3:51 PM