Wandered Home

The Ontario Wanderer and Églantine are back home. We will try to get our wanderings blogged as soon as possible but we also have an art show to prepare, grass to cut, groceries to buy, etc. We had a wonderful time wandering in art museums in London, England followed by 7 days of wandering in the Lake District of England. Yes, we took the camera and by careful editing, while we were there, we managed to bring back only 825 digital photos. We may have to do some more editing and deleting yet....

Note from England

Just a quick note from the area of London, England. We had a poor introduction to London's airport. The passport control line took over two hours to get through and by the time we did get through the baggage information was gone and we had to search and search to find our baggage. Our friend who had come to pick us up at the airport had given up, thinking we had missed the plane or he had the wrong day and gone home and we had to phone and get him to come again. It was another 45 minutes or so. So from landing at 9:45 to the point where we got in the car to drive away from the airport was 3 1/2 hours. Exhaustion!

We are off to the city of London to visit the Tate Modern art gallery today via train and tube (subway).

Moonset

In order to celebrate the first day of school in our area, Églantine and Ontario Wanderer are off wandering. (We are both retired schoolteachers; enough said.) If there are no blogs for a while, we don't have access to computers.

We leave you with this shot of the setting crescent moon from Sept. 5.



Just over 2% of the moon was showing as new moon was on the 4th. I was lucky to get this shot as I rarely even see the moon with this small amount showing. It took several blind shots to get this one as the digital camera view screen refused to register anything at this low light level.

Sunrise Cactus # 2

The sunrise yesterday was not too colourful but as the sun came up the rays caught the cactus house plant on my windowsill.



Here is an even closer look.

Turkeys and Chickens

Today on the after lunch dog walk I had the good fortune to flush up over a dozen wild turkeys. That was the good news. The bad news is that my dog was with me on the dog walk. She is a Shepherd mix (German Shepherd, Australian Shepherd, etc.) and about 70 pounds of excitement on the end of a lead. No way could I take a photo with one hand and hang on to the dog with the other. Sigh! Because we want to encourage wild turkeys, deer, fox, American woodcocks, etc. on our property, our dog spends most of her time on a lead or on a chain in the barnyard. It's good for the wild animals but sure makes the dog keen for her walks. Anyway, I did not get any turkey photos even though the dog and I were within 2 metres (about 6 feet) of one turkey.

Not having turkey photos to share, here is another fungus. This one is called "Chicken-of-the-Woods," (Laetiporus sulphureus). Yes, it is that bright!