My Pictures in Canada ..2014

[socafighter]

By all means, marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
 if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.


Socrates




Waking Up




Wavy Sunset




Weird sky over Swan Hills this morning





yellow glory




Watchful Eye




Young Black chinned Hummingbird




You Can't See Me




All about Nature




an intense thunderstorm last evening




A Tiger Swallowtail




Black Bellied Plovers




I felt like I was being watched, and I was




brushed off




Cecropia Moth – Ready for first flight




Family of Rocky Mountain Goats




Fall Art




I just love pollen




Nearly Sunset




Monsoon sunset colors

[socafighter]

Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci



Sunrise Explosion




A Different Route




Cape cod wings





BlueBirds




Afternoon highlights




A rainbow




A Monarch Butterfly





Big Sky




Azaleas




Blue Mountains




Busy Bee




Blueridge view , our Farm...




Clouded Sulphur on Fireweed




Colorful




Garden Flowers




Red Stormy Sun




Rainy August Day




Hot Sun's hazy night tonight




Red Sunset tonight

[socafighter]

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci




Before Dawn, Argentina



A special Morning , Myrtos, Greece




Abersoch is the name given to the village, England





After the storm , Białystok, Poland




Alpine Garden, Chantemerle Samoens, France




Amazing rainbow over False Bay near Cape Town, South Africa




Istanbul




Amlach, Austria





Channels Islands ark




Hālō, Wailea Makena, Hawaii




Kapfenberg, Austria




Farm, Wagenborgen, Netherlands




East Trout Lake, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom




Nassau, Bahamas




Rainbow in the hills above Flåm, Norway




Summer, Budapest, Hungary




Reykjavik, Iceland




Nighttime in Kastoria Greece




Ketelmere Lake, Schokkerhaven Marina, Holland




Evening , Myrtos, Greece

[socafighter]

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

Sigmund Freud




Caribana 2014




Before dawn




Drifting Clouds




Buffalo Soldiers




A beautiful Zinnia in North Ridge, Ontario, Canada




a bear eating roadside berries! BC




Yummy nectar




Butterfly in stealth mode




Coastal View, BC , Canada





Colors of the garden




Couldn't find a fresh flower to land on




Colors of nature




Summer Gardens




Garden Fairy my daughter




Gathering food for the babies





garden oasis




Gold Etching




Closer to sunset




End of a Beautiful Evening, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

[socafighter]

Some are born great,
some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare




morning had that feel of Fall!



Early morning and the smoke is still with us




 Saturday Morning on a warm August Day




A Hummingbird Moth




allure of Gerber daisies




Beautiful Day for checking out the fall colors, Alaska




Dramatic and Massive Clouds




A bend on the horizon, Alberta , Canada




A big one...




Our Supermoon




A busy wasp




Giant Swallowtail




Night Thunderstorms




Anhinga




A River with wildflowers, Alberta , Canada





Bear in back yard eating blue beries




Cleome and dreams




Evening Landing




Evening Sky

[socafighter]

If music be the food of love,
play on.

William Shakespeare




Morning Glory




Morning Sunrise Therapy




Morning Fire



Gathering Of Ibis




a banasa species stink bug nymph




All except for one teeny wisp of a cloud, that is....




A Sunday Morning Surprise




Crimson Colorful




Curious baby Calf




cute little hummer buzzing




cub in a tree ...




Dahlia again




Daughter Holding super moon




Enjoying nectar




I finally found the lake calm enough to provide reflections




Greenland iceberg




Lovely colorful sunset tonight





Great balance




fiery sunset




Frenzied Finish to the day

[socafighter]

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be.
Be one.

Marcus Aurelius




Another lovely morning at the beach!




Pink Dawn




beauty of flowers



Day after the Supermoon




Beautiful colours




blue frog




Black Eyed Susans




Dancing in the night




Egret




Doe and fawn in the back yard




Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly




Heron grabbed a dragonfly




dew on lilacs




I Want More Fish and....




Light orange daylilies




Just Mom & Me




midsummer dream




Last Friday Night Delight




End to a perfect day

[socafighter]

Wherever smart people work,
doors are unlocked.

Steve Wozniak




Atlantic Sunrise




Sunrise Explosion




Lightweight hummer




Break On Through rays




Beautiful red




Afternoon clouds




A Summer Azure Butterfly




Close up of a bald eagle taken near Kenai, Alaska




cubs feasting on blueberries, my back yard...




Fireweed and mountains in Turnagain Pass area




Cape May Warbler




Lake Minnewanka, Banff , Alberta




Macro dragonfly




American Lady Butterfly




lightning show




Sidney, British Columbia Canada




Pine Sizzle




Summer Cheer




Ruby Sunset




Waving Goodbye To The Day

[socafighter]

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world,
and ten to one but she has the means of settling well,
without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen




morning walk along dikes as sun was rising



Sunrise Zen



Beautiful Bighorn, Banff , Alberta




Butter Yellow




Blue sky and clouds reflect on the marsh..Alberta




Green eyes




Flutterby




dew on lilacs




Foxy Hoping for a snack, Kingston, Ontario



flowers in Bloom




Gold ripples in the water




From the Garden



It is not easy being green




In the rain




Happy Meal



Owl, Aldergrove, Langley, BC



Not sure what type of spider this is..



Osprey Magic




Sunset with Rays




Super Sunset

[socafighter]

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle



Alaska Range in morning light



First Light




Logan's Pass




Look deep into nature, and then you will understand...




Little Flowers




Little things too, have their charm, Anno, 1879




Little Flowers




Lady Bug




water lilies abound




When mating, they form a beautiful heart shape




View from the Anacortes ferry to Sydney B C




vitex or chaste tree




Those Eyes




Water Lilly




Up Close




It didn't disappoint



The Look



some encouragement, a rare occurrence!



Refueling on nectar




vivid Sunset



Valley Sunday Sunset

[socafighter]

Courage is the first of human qualities because
it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Aristotle




Sunrise in Antigonish, Nova Scotia




Sunrise while on a canoe trip




A female eagle defends her food



Along the trail to Mount Margaret




Birdhouse was crowded ready to go!




A morning walk




Campus,Carleton University in Ottawa




Distant Storm



Columbia River Tributary, Canada



Dressed to kill




Dancing in the night




Intent on its prey



Lake Cruise




Looking good after some need rain




orange beauty




Painted Lady




Only by nature colors



primary colors starting




Colorful Sunday Sunset




After sunset

[socafighter]

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love.
This is how the whole scheme of things works.
All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Confucius




A New Day Dawning




Sunrise Point




Auckland, New Zealand




Burj Dubai is the tallest man made structure in the world




Another beautiful coloured flower




Antwerp, Belgium




Alice Lake at 8500 feet




Clouds , Fulpmes, Österreich




Fall, Two weeks earlier than last year




Eccentric Blue Neighbors




City Of Dubai




Danube River , Budapest, Magyarország




Himalayan blue poppy,




from a trail in the Anaga Mountains, Tenerife,Spain




St Paul Cathedral was taken about an hour after sunset





Sky over Cancun




Rainbow Surprise




Sky , Mountains and sea Myrtos, Greece




Precious Moments, Rio , Brazil




River sunset Arcen, Netherlands

[socafighter]

My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln




Sunrise, Corner Brook, NL




Pastels in the morning




August Morning




Summer Dreams




A Red Dragon clinging to a blackberry vine




A Hilltop Pond




A Hummingbird was getting ready for breakfast




A lot of tail swishin going on! The flies are terrible this year...



Brown eyes




Roses




A Hummer and flowers




Eastern Blue Birds




Early Morning Dandelion




Butterflower



Hello Deeks




Orange flower




Ok Where's The Bugs




Saanich, British Columbia Canada




Magnetawan area Early evening




Blazing Sunset

[socafighter]

Go to Heaven for the climate,
Hell for the company.

Mark Twain




Stunning sunrise




Sunrise Blues




St John's Iceberg




Smokin' Hot




St Catharines, Ontario Canada




Teddy bear sunflowers




Sunny garden




Copenhagen, Denmark is a delightful city to visit...




Hi....




Sorrento, Italy




A green bug




Kildonan Park is a park in north Winnipeg, Manitoba




Cool old barn




Roses love rain




Pretty Butterfly Pretty Flower




Ribbon of Orange




Rose after the rain Poland




Sunset on the River, Montreal, Canada




sunset colors

[socafighter]

Get your facts first,
then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain




Serene Glow




A Red Dawn




Akaroa, Canterbury, New Zealand




Orange Haze




A silent marsh




A Monarch Butterfly




A placid river




Beautiful British Columbia , Canada



August Morning Pond




Blue sky and clouds reflect on the marsh on a long Summers day




Cherry Faced Meadowhawk




Canadian Rockies




Canada Geese Southward bound




Butterflies resting




Golden Yellow




He took up the whole big flower




Hello




Glorious sunset, downtown Burlington




Fowl evening on Lake Nipissing

[socafighter]

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci




Golden Morning




Early Morning Birds




Peekaboo Glory




Northern Blue Butterfly on Bog Star flower




Not sure what type of spider this is..




Pelican




Perfect Symmetry




A few flowers still blooming on Whistler Mountain , BC , Canada




Osprey




Cosmos




A mother goose is encouraging her babies to go into the water...




Alpha lake , Whistler, Canada




All about colour




Crystal Springs, Saskatchewan Canada




Nectar




Rose of Sharon




A Praying Mantis preening on Teasel




Red tailed Hawk In Flight




Paddling at sunset




Special sunset

[socafighter]

Be sure you put your feet in the right place,
then stand firm.

Abraham Lincoln




Morning swim



a different view of the rising sun




Munchin on some dandelions!




Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska



Oh to be a Panda! Eat & Sleep all Day!




Mountains, Late in the year...




He took up the whole big flower




Followers



full moon preview




Golden



Hummers in the Flowers




Fine details




Locked On Target




A hummingbird enjoying the butterfly bushes




beautiful sunflower




August Colors




Geneva, Switzerland




Foggy Sunset




Golden Sunset

[socafighter]

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace,
making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle




Our Star Rising




Kenai Alaska sunrise




on a sunny and warm May morning




at the Toronto Zoo




Ominous storm on the horizon




On the farm




Whale , Triton, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada




on the trail




Violas in the rain




Winged Wonder




View from the Anacortes ferry to Sydney B C..Canada




Yellow Tulip




Wild Flowers Great Sand Dunes




Young male ruby throated hummingbird




Pink and white



Niagara falls




So Beautiful




Port Stanley, Ontario Canada




A very wet and gloomy sunset




Sunset after heavy rains

[socafighter]

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life;
now that I am old I know that it is.


Oscar Wilde





Feeling like Fall in mornings




Fire Smoke & Sunrise




Saw this little guy along the waters edge



Severe thunderstorms over Lake Huron




Scruffy



Sawtooth Mountains




Ant on one of my Nasturium flowers




Sky, Strange , Ontario, Canada




Sparrows hunting for bugs




Summer at its best, Alberta, Canada




Splendid Hummer




Sun Sliced by clouds




Summer Indigo




a brown bug is beating me to the blackberries!




Enjoying Sunshine




A storm, Kingston, Ontario Canada




A Monarch Butterfly




Balmy Beach Sunset, Ontario Canada




Another day ends

[socafighter]

I have always been afraid of banks.

Andrew Jackson




Sun rising over Lake St Clair in Puce Fog in the horizon



Sunrise Dreams




Sunrise Surprise




Summer insects




Summer's Perfection




Summer Indigo




Summer Greetings




A storm Lightning captured





A very rare pink Dragonfly




Sleepy Garden




Spotted sand piper




Softly Red




Sparrow party




Spotted Dragonfly




a beautiful Field of Fireweed and beautiful weather




A hummer and nectar




Amazing colors




Charlottetown, PEI, Summer




Fiery Water





beautiful rays hang around for the whole sunset

[socafighter]

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.


Albert Einstein




August Sunrise , Lake Ontario , Canada



A Beautiful Beginning To a Hot & Humid Day!




El Capitan




Enjoying pollen




Estevan, Saskatchewan Canada





Emerald Lake West Shore, Golden , Canada




Evaporation after a storm




hello all




Hummingbird Chicks




Having a rest




Hay Fields , Alberta , Canada




Green Heron




Dark Tiger Swallowtail




Grizzly Bear




A night at a mountain lake




A Female osprey and one of her babies




Aloha from the Big Island




A Forster's Tern




Almost Down




Another gorgeous sunset

[socafighter]

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

Leonardo da Vinci




Manitoba Sunrise




Long Branch, Ontario Canada sunrise





Hummers at the Arboretum in Guelph. Ontario , Canada




It's Raining




Late bloomers




Hiking under a lovely cirrus sky




I am singing




A Black Swallowtail




Anthuriums




A lovely summer afternoon




a kick to keep the distance




Successful fisherman gull in a hot pursuit for the fish




Colors of Summer




A Hint Of Fall





Ornamental Garden, Ottawa, Ontario





Another Summer is drawing to an end at the beach




Orange sunshine




Ranunculus




All the elements were there for a nice sunset




Montréal, Quebec Canada

[socafighter]

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Aristotle




Beautiful sunrise in Essex County, Ontario, Canada




As the sun rises above the mountain..




Aurora Australis Aug 2014, New Zealand




Butterfly, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom




Banff , Alberta Canada




Beautiful auroral display  in Chapleau, Ontario , Canada




Burgeo, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada




Drifting Clouds, Fulpmes, Österreich, Austria



Dubaj, Zjednoczone Emiraty Arabskie




Kapfenberg, Österreich, Austria



Colchuck Lake, Seattle .




Clouds, Samoens, France




Gardens Chorley, United Kingdom




Matrei in Osttirol, Austria




underneath one of Rome's many bridges




Norwegian Countryside




Mist, Antwerp, Belgium




Mekinje , Slovenia




Sunset,Katwijk, Netherlands



Sunset , Weesp, Netherlands

[socafighter]

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats




Beautiful sunrise in Auckland, New Zealand




Cambridge, Ontario Canada




A gorgeous butterfly




A sister with a view




Summer Mantis




Dark Tiger Swallowtail




Flower,Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada




Flowers that are Predators




amusing to see the different stages of how this flower opens




Pollen collector




Pretty in pink flowers




A Supermoon, Kingston, Ontario Canada





poppy bloom




Wetland Colours




Yellow Legged Meadowhawk Dragonfly




Wildflowers at Waterton




Yes, brilliant Japanese Maple




yellow warbler on the heliopsis




Sunset beach walk with dog




Sunset Rerun

[socafighter]

If you know the enemy and know yourself,
 you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Sun Tzu




Incredible eastern sky just before sunrise




Sunrise Splash




Lots of babies this year




Lorquin's Admiral




An Unusual Rainbow




long Neck red Neck




Love That Lemon Mint




Pumpkin blossom




a thunderstorm roll through just at sunset




Purple Clematis




Bald Faced Hornet




Beautiful Flowers




Purple Finch




Praying Mantis




Great Horned Owl




Fireweed Flowers




Hummer saying nectar




Huge




Beautiful Sunset behind a leafless tree




amazing sunset

[socafighter]

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Plato




Late Summer Day Dawning




Morning,Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada




Male Northern Shoveler




Macro the face





Mendenhall Lake, Alaska




Male Belted kingfisher




A touch of color




In an old quarry Started in the 1930's A beautiful garden, BC , Canada




As the sun sets....




Freshly fallen snow on the Cathedral Mountains,Alaska




In the garden




Fundy National Park, canada




Bug on Nasturtium




Invasive Clouds




An oldie




Barely size of thumbnail, beautiful violet color...




Back at the Ranch




Friends..?   Kingston, Ontario , Canada.




A late Summer Sunset




A Sunset Afterglow

[socafighter]

You have to dream
before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam




Glimpse of Sunrise




Pretty Sunrise




Layers Of Color




Morning over the Fields




Hummingbird on Sedum




a different type of weather




Baltimore Oriole




Bear at the cottage Kingston, Ontario




Black eyed Susan gold




Black Damsel




Brantford, Ontario Canada




Blue Heron on the shady side of the pond




Blue Moon




Looking at me...




it was amazing! Nature at her best.




Mating Monarchs





A spectacular sight...




Sundown,Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico




Beautiful Days End

[socafighter]

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Ernest Hemingway




Sunrise,eastern shore of Lake Huron of the Great Lakes..




Morning, Princess Point Hamilton, Ontario, Canada




Sharing



Spiders are the best mothers




Auroras in the backyard...




She was really showing off





soaking up a little sun...




Racons enjoying  gooseberries....




Flowers in nature....




Portage Pass, Alaska




Pretty flowers




Probably the fires in Canada gave us this red sun tonight




pintail




One out of Three




set the sky on fire




Didn't realize how cute this little guy was...




A much different scene in a few weeks when fall arrives....




Stunning sunset on the Grand River, Dunnville...




South Vancouver Sunset

[socafighter]

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill




Red Mt Sunrise Reflection




Purple & Orange Sunrise




Float Plane Dock




Frosty Delight, Alaska




Fireweed




Beautiful from the center out!




Float like a Butterfly




A young mother bear and her two cubs




a different type of weather




A Plumeria plant with flowers




Eastern Tiger Swallowtail




new visitor yesterday at the Huron River...




Contrast of colors




One of Natures perfection...




A Least Bittern




A view of the last colors




Another Puffin




Natures own design...




a sailboat entering Port Elgin, Ontario harbour, Canada




Amazing colours in a September sunset

[socafighter]

He who does not trust enough,
Will not be trusted.

Lao Tzu




Sunrise, Montréal, Quebec Canada




Alberta Sunrise




nasty Storm




Monarch caterpillar




Mom and Fawn




A Handsome Cardinal




awesome Gulf Fritillary




Barley ready to be harvested




A Sleepy baby red squirrel




After the storm




A Sandhill Crane




autumn is coming and another year is passing by ....



A Pipevine Swallowtail




A punk rocker




Japanese Iris




Building Storm




Hello all




Red Zinnia




Soaking in the sunset..sailing




Ruby Sunset