Tuesday, January 4, 2011
January Afternoon At The City Of Brampton's Greenhouse At Chinguacousy Park
This large clock dominates the main entrance to the park.
The plant nursery open to the public every afternoon.
On a cold blustery afternoon this is just the place to spend an hour or so.
A January Afternoon At The Zoo
"They say that it's all happening at the zoo,
I do believe it, I do believe it's true,
At the zoo, at the zoo...."
-Paul Simon
Chinguacousy Park near the downtown Brampton core is a 100 acre recreation area featuring a petting zoo, tea room cafe, a skate board park, wedding chapel and a top notch plant nursery. Paddleboat rentals are available for use on a fair sized pond within the park. A creek runs through the park so a number of the walking trails feature beautiful pony bridges.
During the winter some animals such as the peacocks, rabbits and hogs spend the winter in the barn.
Others tend to thrive in the outdoors.
Mallards will stay in the park year round as long as there is some open water. This year it has not been a problem.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Rocks
"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."
- Robert Montgomery
The Algoma district,containing such a large expanse of unexplored and undisturbed land is a treasure trove of geological phenomena. A few of my favorites are listed below.
An erratic is a piece of rock that has been eroded and transported by a glacier to a different area; it is left behind when the ice melts. Glacial erratics give us information about the direction of ice movement and distances of transport. Glacial erratics can be any size from small pebbles to large boulders the size of a house.
Puddingstone is a conglomerate rock consisting of individual stones within a finer matrix usually formed from quartz. This particular example is from St. Josephs island . It contains red and brown pieces of jasper. It can be highly polished and is used for jewellry.
Some of the work done by Northshore craftsmen using local puddingstone.
A GLACIAL "DROPSTONE." A granite stone is embedded within a layered sedimentary rock. The cobble may have been transported by an ice sheet and then released. The cobble embedded itself in the sediment on the ocean floor.
The ripple marks on this rock face were made some two billion years ago by waves of an ancient ocean that once covered this area. Buried by layers of silt and subjected to great pressure, the rippled sand became sandstone. blasting during road contruction uncovered this ancient phenomena.
- Robert Montgomery
The Algoma district,containing such a large expanse of unexplored and undisturbed land is a treasure trove of geological phenomena. A few of my favorites are listed below.
An erratic is a piece of rock that has been eroded and transported by a glacier to a different area; it is left behind when the ice melts. Glacial erratics give us information about the direction of ice movement and distances of transport. Glacial erratics can be any size from small pebbles to large boulders the size of a house.
Puddingstone is a conglomerate rock consisting of individual stones within a finer matrix usually formed from quartz. This particular example is from St. Josephs island . It contains red and brown pieces of jasper. It can be highly polished and is used for jewellry.
Some of the work done by Northshore craftsmen using local puddingstone.
A GLACIAL "DROPSTONE." A granite stone is embedded within a layered sedimentary rock. The cobble may have been transported by an ice sheet and then released. The cobble embedded itself in the sediment on the ocean floor.
The ripple marks on this rock face were made some two billion years ago by waves of an ancient ocean that once covered this area. Buried by layers of silt and subjected to great pressure, the rippled sand became sandstone. blasting during road contruction uncovered this ancient phenomena.
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