Realism - more than Patriotism

[michaelmaltby]

Interior Lines of Communications II: scenes

The Monck Road - surveyed by the British Army engineers during the US Civil War - and then driven 265 odd kms straight through The Shield from the Ottawa River Valley to Orillia (and access to the upper Great Lakes) - was a response to the Fenian Raids into Canada from the US immediately after the CW was over.

Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'The Cabin' is due north of Cameron Lake at the end of Cameron Road.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Meadow: May-July, 2012

Willy's been busy ... and, beaver engineering

 

[michaelmaltby]

Battery Top-Up.

Dusk, west deck. Hooked felt rug, Estonia. Bed time.

 

[Matt308]

How are the bugs in your area?

 

[michaelmaltby]

Absolutely vicious. Swarms of deer flies and ... after sunset the mosquitos move in ..

Thanks for asking ...

MM

 

[Matt308]

Kinda what I thought.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Well - that's the price we northern boreal forest types get to pay for having a vast tourist-population of migratory birds. Protein on the fly.
By August the tourists will be pulling out ... sadly. And the bugs are mostly out of the picture. September-October is prime building season.

Chairs,

MM

 

[michaelmaltby]

For This Hot Spell

Leks playing "ice-breaker" a few years ago. And a cold basement for beer and bird seed. (It's not pretty but if you don't have power for a fridge ..... it's a blessing) (The mirror on the down side of the trap door is so I can see my feet when I'm carrying an arm-load of firewood in the winter. It got cracked building the 2nd storey )

 

[michaelmaltby]

A Place for Everything, everything in its place ..

It's been dry and hot ... the turtles in Willy's little pond have moved out. Now and six months ago.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Contested Airspace ....

I amused some on this forum a while back by referring to P-39 Airacobras as "hummingbirds".

WELL ... they are! They operate in a classic perpetual overwatch boom-and-zoom mode .... just like the Russians.

I wish I could capture the action ... but it's impossible ... often at dawn and dusk. The sound tells the story though .. and maybe I'll try and get Leks to make an audio file I can post here. But believe me .... it's dogfights dawn to dusk from now (the young have fledged) until they leave to go south. Only the feeder shot is mine, the rest are stock ..

 

[michaelmaltby]

Hot and Dry, fire ban in effect

Camping on the land - September, 81. Walls up, roof on - October - November, '81

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Mike, do you have any photos of the hole you made for the foundation before you put it in?

 

[michaelmaltby]

October, 1981 was a busy month for Tiina and me ...

... amazing run of weather that held till the roof was on - mid-November.
Here you go, Crow

[I did not do the excavation (Cat tracked loader) or block work. A local contractor did he job for $4,000. (end of season) We removed only one tree from the site plus a massive pine stump from the pre-logged out era, more on that subject to come, ]

 

[Matt308]

Nice.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Very nice I would love to have a cabin out in the middle of nowhere.

 

[oldcrowcv63]

Thanks Mike!! Just what I was hoping to see. I'll save me a trip or cost me one. Beautiful. I'll get back to you with what I can see in the strata if you are interested.

 

[fubar57]

Always great to see your updates Mr. Maltby.

Geo

 

[michaelmaltby]

Likewise yours, Geo

MM

 

[Matt308]

Yep looks like fun. But anytime I see a tent on a raised platform, it makes me cringe as I know what that means. Been there. Done that.

 

[michaelmaltby]

Case Study .....

Wolf Pine (this guy escaped being logged out in the 1890's and burnt out in the 1905's). It's a rainforest in the North (Boreal Forest) for the summer months. + 21 at 9:00 AM and humid. Rain. Water lilies.

The James-Hudson Bay watershed (not pictured here) is the second largest watershed in the world - the largest non tropical watershed, IIRC.

Think how abundant protein (and safety to breed) must be to justify so many species travelling half-a-world to breed here. Before winter. The vigor of life from May to August in these forests is awesome and humbling.

Apologies for the sort order of this post - "Case Study" is the beetle carapace on the Chinese Lantern pod. The Wolf Pine should be upright and likewise, the dock and water lilies of the far bank [pilot error].

Is there a work around .... Anyone?


MM