Brian is famous 😎
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Our river... from the air.
Our backyard ❤️
Rob Stimpson
Along the Oxtongue River, just west of Algonquin Park at sunrise this morning. Natures palette is in a blaze of colour.
come paddle in the 'hood
In the 'hood. Come paddle at Bondi. Thanksgiving bookings all include a free canoe 🛶
jumping for joy
One of our guests painted this wonderful image of children at our main dock. Thanks Larissa for this beautiful memento of summertime ❤️
playing catch up...
It got busy this autumn, and then Christmas came, and I fell way behind with the blog.
So here come so catching up posts from the autumn. I'll try to do better!
from October...
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Leaves don’t “turn” orange or yellow. These colours are in the leaves all along. When plants shut down in fall, they stop photosynthesizing, and the green fades, letting the orange and yellow shine through. The orange is produced by chemicals called carotenes, which also make carrots orange.
So what about red and purple leaves? Some trees and other plants, such as red maple and sumac, produce chemicals called anthocyanins that produce vibrant red or purple leaves in response to weather cues in fall. These chemicals are the same ones that give colour to red apples, purple grapes, and blueberries!
Orange leaves can also be caused by carotenes and anthocyanins mixing it up. In some sugar maples, you can see a range of colour from yellow to brilliant orange to red in the same tree, depending on how much sunlight the leaves received, which affects how much anthocyanin they produce.
#MNRFscience
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