AERIALS: Simpson Hill trails and colours from the air.

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Hi

Here are 3 pics I shot of our recent work area on Simpson Hill at 12:26 today with my Canon A650, reduced to 1/2 size and tweaked with PSP 1 step photo fix.

The first one shows Chamcook Rd #3 and the dirt road into the rail bed, our Trailhead #3.

As you can see, there are lots of shades of yellow, and I don't know which are Beech trees in order to find our grove. We can only guess where our trails go. The poplars, birch, striped maple and some other maples are yellow too!

Its easier to see the pines amongst the spruce as they are a lighter green and have distinctive branches. Those dead looking trees may also be the old pines we saw.

Even with more resolution our trails would be invisible, but its nice seeing "our" forest from an eagle's perspective.  Its "Acadian" nature is really obvious this time of year.

tj

Fundy Mystery Apple

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Sorry about the previous post that just said "Fundy Mystery".  Hit the wrong key or something!

Hi
I have a couple of wild apple trees, widely separated, that produce a red apple that has flesh tinged with red throughout as per attached photo. The bigger of these trees has grown from a seedling that I have watched grow from a sprout beside my driveway since about 1980.

A friend said it was a "Brunswicker", but the description in
http://www.appleman.ca/korchard/history.htm and
http://www.appleman.ca/korchard/NewBrun.htm
does not match.

I heard that Kingsbrae Gardens had such an apple in their selection of old varieties, but I forget its name. It was at the back of the row, on the left, as I recall.

This is such an attractive and delicious apple I'd like to know more about it, and, if it is indeed unusual, perhaps propagate it by grafting, but I am very ignorant about this art and science. I'd like to see New Brunswick regain its lead as an apple producer, and cider too!

I realize that every seed grown from an apple will probably produce a different variety, so to have two similar wild apples on my property (maybe more) seems unusual, as is this pink fleshed apple.

I look forward to your comments.
Tim Foulkes

The Bay of Fundy as a Japanese Garden

Driving between Bayside and Oak Bay these days is, for me, a real Ooo-Aah experience.
I went out this morning to try to capture some of it to share with those less fortunate.
The "Wild pear" (shad bushes) are mostly in bloom, the pin cherries are just beginning, and choke cherries won't be far behind, and then we have all the wild apple trees already in bud.
- enough to make one weep with the beauty of it all.
Cherish and enjoy!

Tim 

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Wood Frog and Garter Snake at Bayside

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Hi Art
These pics are in my latest facebook album, but you may wish to makes something of them for I love Quoddy Wild. - taken this Easter Sunday.
It sure is nice to see this wildlife in my neck of the woods.
I know these critters both eat bugs, but maybe each other too?
Tim