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- Back from trip to Huntsville, Parry Sound area
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- Couple more HDR pics
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- Out ATVing again
- It's official Ice Out May 8, 2011
- Fishermen are out on the lake
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Bill Fox
- Gowganda Photography
- Gowganda, Ontario, Northeastern Ontario, Canada
- First time in Gowganda was 1968 with the Dept. of Lands and Forests, doing a soil and vegetation study for the Wildlife Productivity Inventory. While here found the country amazing, the boreal forest the lakes at every turn and the air clean and fresh. It didn't take long back then to get the camera out and start recording some of the sights I'd seen. Since then with a few layoffs in photography its good to get right back at it. Putting your pictures on a blog like this forces you to go out and take more pics, which is the goal of this site. For more on GOWGANDA check out (((www.gowganda.net)))
6 comments:
Violets are so beautiful and the good thing is that you have to get down to the soil to really see them. My favorite is Heartsease (Viola Tricolor) Do you have that one in Gowganda?
Unfortunately the heartsease doesnot smell as good als the violet. I love the smell of the violets.
I offer you a picture of a heartsease from my garden, Ella.
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Ella,
There are several kinds of wild Violets but I don't think I have seen that one. The Viola tricolor is not shown in any of my Northeastern Ontario identification books. In Newcombs guide there are 30 varieties in North Eastern America and it is not mentioned. Wikipedia mentions it is a European variety which doesn't mean it may be grown by greenhouse growers here.
Thanks ML and Bill for photos and information. You have inspired me to make a post about the Heartsease and tell the "story" that tells why i looks like it does.
Good idea with the post, Ella. I found your blog now and bookmarked it. Thank you.
I wrote a portrait of the heartsease on my page last autumn. In german we call it "little stepmother".
The reason: The lower petal of the flower represents the mother, the petals in the middle are the two daughters and the petals above are the stepdaughters, because they share one sepal. The other petals are each with an own sepal.
Hi again
German isn't far from Sweden and we also call it "Stepmother's violet" and the story is based on that description of facts that ML has, but with a little more imagination...
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