Video of a trumpeter swan seen on a marsh pond near Spencerville, Ontario, May 20, 2013.
Video shot by Jason Quinn
Geoffrey’s hunting diary: Trumpeter swan
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Yellow warbler viewed in a mixed habitat of shrubs and meadow next to the Rideau River, May 20, 2013.
Photographed and posted by Geoffrey
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.–Johann von Goethe (1749-1832)
Recruitment is defined among other things as “the action of finding new people to join an organization or support a cause.” (Oxford Dictionaries) It is so common to come across the claim that you are recruited into being gay, that you choose to be gay having been lured into this lifestyle. Speaking on behalf of myself, I can say that I was not recruited into being gay. Same sex attraction manifests itself naturally in me. It is who I am. During my formative years in the latter half of the 1970s the only impression I got of homosexuality (aside from a steady stream of disparaging, anti-gay jokes, remarks and slurs commonly in use at the time), was from a series of news reports about police raids on bathhouses in Toronto, culminating in Operation Soap in 1981. The impression of the gay lifestyle presented to me really came up short if it was intended to win me as a recruit. I have written about my experience in how I came to accept that I am gay in previous posts, see Tap, Tap, Tap…, for example. It was a long and difficult process that dragged on over several years. I tried desperately to ignore, suppress, will, even pray away the feelings of same sex attraction. For a long time I really wanted the gayness to go away. Continue reading
Female red-winged blackbird on her nest in the reeds at the edge of a pond next to the Rideau River, May 18, 2013.
Photographed and posted by Geoffrey.
Bachelor drakes hanging out together on a pond next to the Rideau River May 16, 2013. Their work is done, the hens they bred are incubating clutches of eggs and will be raising the broods of ducklings on their own.
Photographed and posted by Geoffrey.
There were several, as many as 18, painted turtles hanging out on this log on May 13, 2013. It was an unusually cool day. I am guessing the turtles huddle together on colder days in an effort to conserve their body heat.
Photographed and posted by Geoffrey
Young painted turtle sunning himself and who was gracious enough to let me photograph him up close in a pond next to the Rideau River, May 8, 2013.
Photographed and posted by Geoffrey.
