Turtle Point Cottage, Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario

 Turtle Point Cottage, Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario.

Sunset at Tamworth, Beaver Lake, Ontario

 

The sunrise is God's greeting - the sunset, His signature.

Turtle Point Cottage, Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario.

A Room With a View

A room with a view

of Beaver Lake from

 Turtle Point Cottage

 at Tamworth, Ontario, Canada.

Sunset at Turtlepoint, Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario

Sunset at Turtlepoint Cottage,

Beaver Lake,

Tamworth, Ontario

Fleeting Sunset

“Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder

not just because they are beautiful,

but because they are fleeting.”

― Richard Paul Evans, The Gift

Marching Orders

Marching Orders! Left,..left... left/right/left!

My grand-daughter Anya gives marching orders to the roosters over the Canada Day Weekend at the 'Double H' Farm, Erinsville, Ontario.

Clouds may have silver lining, but they can store data too!

Once upon a time the saying went 'Every cloud has a silver lining',

but in modern times "the 'cloud' can store a lot of data"!

(Pic and caption by TonFerns - Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario.)

By the still waters of Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario

'Double H' Farm - Erinsville, Ontario.

Fresh farm eggs

at 'Double H' Farm

Erinsville, Ontario.

SILVERY MOON REFLECTION ON BEAVER LAKE, Tamworth, Ontario.

Night watch on deck!

Turtle Point Cottage

Beaver Lake

Tamworth, Ontario

Evening at Turtle Point Cottage, Beaver Lake, Ontario

Evening at Turtle Point Cottage,

Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario

SILENT, SERENE AND CALM BEFORE THE STORM

View of

BEAVER LAKE

from

TURTLE POINT COTTAGE

Tamworth,

Ontario

Turtle Point Cottage - Tamworth, Ontario

Sunset at Beaver Lake

View from Turtle Point Cottage,

Tamworth, Ontario

Hooked on a Sunset

Beaver Lake at Sunset

View from Turtle Point Cottage

Tamworth, Ontario

BEAVER LAKE, TAMWORTH, ONTARIO, CANADA

VIEW FROM TURTLEPOINT COTTAGE
TAMWORTH, ONTARIO

THE 'TONFERNS SCATTER'

Aurora Borealis at high noon! The 'BMW Effect'. This very interesting scattering of colour and patterns of colourful light bands were created when I took this shot through the glass pane of the passenger side window of my son's BMW as we were heading on our way to Turtle Point Cottage at Beaver Lake, near Tamworth, Ontario. So then, let's call it the 'Tonferns Scatter', shall we?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_scattering

THE POLE STAR & THE GREAT BEAR

THE GREAT BEAR

or 

THE BIG DIPPER

or 

THE URSA MAJOR

or

THE PLOUGH

Call it whatever you want, but it is still one of the most famous and easily recognisable constellations in the sky throughout the year.

The Great Bear is useful in locating the Pole Star, the Polaris or the North Star, which for centuries has served nightly as a heavenly navigational object for mariners and explorers alike, indicating the orientation of the North Pole.

Visible in the picture above: Note the two stars on the left, at the bottom of the photo, point to the Pole Star on the right, (just a little left of the tree) which in fact is the brightest star in the Ursa Minor (The Little Bear) constellation. It is seen directly above the Pole Star on the right in above photo at the end of the 'handle' of the 'Little Dipper ' asterism.

The Pole Star or Polaris is directly above the north pole of the earth and stays there all of the time.  All other stars appear to move slowly from east to west as the earth rotates, but the pole star stays stopped at due north.

There are two distinctive star pattern constellations to look for or affirm when attempting to identify the Pole Star, although one is much bigger and brighter and the other much smaller and dimmer.  The first constellation looks like a pan with a handle, and is called the Great Bear or the Big Dipper.  The end two stars are called the pointers and these two stars aim you towards Polaris or the Pole star. If one would draw an imaginary line through these two stars and extend it to the first biggest star, then it would meet the Pole Star, which actually belongs to the constellation known as the Little Bear or Ursa Minor.



On the other side of the Polar star is a constellation that looks like a W. This is called  Cassiopeia. If you can see this Cassiopeia constellation then you need to look for the pole star going upwards from the top of the 'W'.

Photograph taken from the
Deck of Turtle Point Cottage,
Beaver Lake, Tamworth, Ontario.

10 sec @ 3.5 Nikon D40X 
29th June 2012
10.26.42 PM
5.1 MB

MAKE IT A POINT TO STAY AT TURTLE POINT