Close up

aka Centaurea cineraria I have thought since I edited this photo that the treatment was inspired by Richard Dadd's The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke , but have no idea why I think that. You be the judge: pm1.narvii.com/7148/b4c6a033abbf6cb1f43cb59aec32dbc9586cedb7r1-1475-2048v2_uhq.jpg

The full-screen view (click the pic then the frame at top right) is the brightest version.

Maximum security at the Carnivorous Flora Botanical Prison in Freelton, Ontario (turn south at Puslinch), where flesh-eating pansies are trying to force their way out of their cage -- look at the determination shown by the two at bottom left! DO NOT PET THE PANSIES.

After the ice storm of 2013. The original title said this was taken on December 16, 2013, but it was actually taken on Dec. 22. A second ice storm followed a couple of days later. The PiP at top left shows another view from the same storm. ----- Several people have commented about the cold, so I'll try to clarify that. You usually get an ice storm when the ground temperature is just below 0°C and a layer of air warmer than 0°C passes above it. Rain falls through the cold air and freezes whenever it lands. So it isn't that cold, but problems develop if it stays cold near the ground, and it did in Southern Ontario. As Kenneth and Keith have noted, this ice was spectacularly thick, and it took down trees and power lines.

Another one from the ice storm of 2013 in Toronto. The PiP at top left has the other view I posted.

A close-up of I know not what. I took it five years ago and have forgotten what it was. Usually I would have also taken a longer shot to remind me of what this was but I guess I wasn't feeling usual that day.

Osgoode Hall, Toronto

Toronto.

I'm editing photos on my phone until I can edit on my computer again. There are flaws in this one but I just wanted to post something . Well, there've been flaws in everything I've posted so maybe I'm being alarmist.