Cottage September 27~30, 2013

Overall a lovely weekend, weather was above normal in temperature, sunny for the most part.   Autumnal colours were everywhere, as Mother Nature extended her pallet.



Maple leaf



Sumac



Sumac



Birch reflections



Birch reflections



 

 

Lake reflection

Saturday the 28^th we awoke to find the lake was missing under a thick white shroud of fog that burned off by 10:00am. Looking out was surreal, as the dock and canoe were visible, but the field of vision that would have been skyline, lake and distant lake shore was just a backlit white area of negative space.



Canoe in morning fog



Canoe in morning fog



Pine in fog



Slowly the fog lifts



Fog burning off in morning sun



Fog burning off in morning sun



Fog burning off in morning sun



Fog burning off in morning sun



Fog burning off in morning sun

Warm Fall days usually mean the ladybugs were plentiful, as they seek out  tree bark, hollow logs and the eaves of cabins.



Ladybuc on Sumac leaf

Monday a family of Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), drifted by, one scored a sunfish in the shallow water, but missed that shot. Soon they will leave the lake to seek out open water, that won’t freeze over. The females sporting their rusty head plumage.



Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) female



Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) females



Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) wing stretching

A docile American Toad (Bufo americanus americanus), sluggish in the early day coolness warmed enough to forage to food to fatten up for it’s long winter nap.



Darrell Larose
Ottawa, Canada