Motorcycle Diary

Sail Away

Lilac pool

Double vision

up here

misty morning

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A lake in the woods

The land is now so wooded around this lake one can hardly walk through it.  I used to swim here as a child.  Around the only island visible in this old photo a person can catch bass and old logs.  The stands of birch in the distance, looking like frost upon the land, have for the most part been replaced with spruce and pine.  Otters and beaver live here.  In fact the first beaver dam I ever encountered was found to the right side of this picture at what is the south end of the lake.  During my teen years I would bike the 5.5 km (3.4 miles) to cool off in the water after a warm summer day.  The last time I visited the lake I was hunting for chaga, amply supplied by the remaining birch trees on the southern hills, the once grassy fields you see in the foreground.

Begin here

falling

i've had dreams of climbing some impossible edifice and peering over the edge when i reach the top.

for one scrambling moment i lose my footing and fall, sensing with my whole being that what has happened is irrevocable and i'm about to die.

i awake with my heart pounding.  how real it seemed.  how real it all felt.

North

Wish you were... 

Amanita muscaria

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Amanita muscaria.  Hamilton, ON (Click on image for larger picture).

Little brown park mushroom

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Another unidentified saprobe.  Ancaster, ON.  (Click on photo for larger image).

Little white mushroom

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Unidentified saprophyte.  My guess is Mycena or Coprinoid.  Ancaster, ON.  (Click on photo for larger image).

Cardinalis cardinalis

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Northern Cardinal.  Ancaster, ON May 26, 2015 (click on photo for larger view).

Polysporus squamosus

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Polysporus squamosus, or "Dryads Saddle."  Hamilton, Ontario, May 9, 2015.  (Click on photo for larger image).

Pluteus longistriatus

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I've identified this as Pluteus longistriatus (is the dark ring around the base of the pileus common?).  Discovered in Hamilton, Ontario, May 19, 2015.  (Click on photo for larger version).

Campus wandering

The bicyclist

A'Falling