Dalmatians at a dog show. Probably Guelph but could be Quebec City. Early 1990s.
Helium balloon prepares for launch at dusk, Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta 1993 more photos here: markbellis.blogspot.com/1993/10/albu...
@bowman4ward2.bsky.social Visiting my sister Mary's friends in Queens. We went by the house that had a very nice Christmas display (I can't remember which one - Google says there are at least two famous ones in Queens), and mafia boss John Gotti's house, which just looked like any suburban home.
@bsky.app Moth, c. 1991, flew into my apartment above a diner in Elora, Ontario done with screwmount Takumar 105 macro - excellent lens! Maple Spanworm (Ennomos magnaria) markbellis.blogspot.com/2013/09/moth...
@bsky.app Quebec Provincial Police rush towards Kahnawà꞉ke Mohawk Territory at sunset, Kanesatake Resistance (Oka Crisis), 1990
About 15 ducklings, one mallard hen. This was taken at the shoreline of Canada's largest city. Bluffers Park, Scarborough (now part of Toronto), c. 1991 #birds
@bsky.app One more from the 1993 Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. Lots more here: markbellis.blogspot.com/1993/10/albu...
@bsky.app I wondered for years what this was - it's a water tower for the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital, built in 1859, with the tower going up in 1895. Taken from Interstate 94, on my way back to Canada, Fall 1993
@bsky.app Tillsonburg, August 14, 1997 - Margaret Gibbs, 61, skydives for first time in tandem dive with instructor Frank Watts. Gibbs has spina bifida. markbellis.blogspot.com/2026/07/firs...
@bsky.app London, ON, July 24, 1997 - Lynn Harichy (d. 25/12/2003), MS sufferer, tried to smoke pot in front of London Ontario Police HQ, Sept 15, 1997, in protest against medical marijuana not being legal. She was released after receiving notice to appear. markbellis.blogspot.com/1997/09/lynn...
@bsky.app Jean-Marie Laprise looks at his hemp plants grown for fibre. Pain Court, Ontario, 1997 markbellis.blogspot.com/1997/08/hemp...
@bsky.app Giant puffball, Guelph Lake Conservation Area. Someone had left this by the dam. 1990s. Calvatia gigantea, Vesse-de-loup géante. These are edible but don't keep for very long so the best way to keep it is to slice it and fry it and freeze it.
@bsky.app 10 ft long Burmese python held by Scott Banks, Carol Whittaker at Flamborough Township Animal Shelter, snake found near pond near Cambridge, 31 August 1994.
@bsky.app I went to a gun club near Kitchener, Ontario for a story in the mid-90s. It was really hard back then to get a pistol permit in Canada, and now there's a freeze on new purchases unless you're in a club that does training for events in the Olympics.
@bsky.app MP Clifford Lincoln on train to Canada Unity Rally, Montreal, October 27, 1995 markbellis.blogspot.com/1995/10/cana...
@bsky.app Highland Games, Fergus, Ontario, Aug 10, 1997 - Shannon Hartnett was the focus of my story - she is a oceanologist as well as an athlete and was one of the few who could toss the caber end over end. markbellis.blogspot.com/1997/08/ferg...
@bsky.app I don't know how these came into my possession - they are pressed plants with notes in Danish from 1946 and 1950 - they were in a folder with a dedication in English that said they were given by a mother to her daughter, both with typical Danish names
@bsky.app Lots of cherries from dwarf tree - I only had a few last year, but this year another tree near it bloomed, so it got pollenated by another variety, which it needed. Sour cherries. Not a lot of Japanese beetles this year.
@bsky.app markbellis.blogspot.com/1993/08/monn... Monna Zentner was an anti-Nazi activist in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. She protested holocaust denier David Irving's visit to her city. Here she weeps on meeting supporters at a demonstration after her house was burned.
Monna Zentner, anti-Nazi activist whose house burned
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@bsky.app Smoking Popes, Lee's Palace, Toronto, 1994 or 1995 markbellis.blogspot.com/1995/07/smok...
