Rising Up from the old barn.
This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s January Squares on the theme of Up.
A rainbow rising up from an old barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in autumn. There’s a weak double rainbow behind the barn.

Rising Up from the old barn.
This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s January Squares on the theme of Up.
A rainbow rising up from an old barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in autumn. There’s a weak double rainbow behind the barn.
This is a contribution to the Photo a Week Challenge: Rainbow.
I have a few photos of rainbows but one photo came to mind immediately on reading the challenge.
A rainbow over a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in the autumn.
This is my day 16 contribution to Becky’s April Squares: Top photo challenge.
A rainbow tops a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. It actually a double rainbow with a weak secondary one behind the main rainbow.
I had a few ideas for the A Photo a Week Challenge: Landscape prompt.
In the end I decided to keep it simple and go with a small, varied selection of photos.
A rainbow over a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada in the autumn.
Storm clouds and light beams, Loch Arkaig, Scotland.
Autumn colour on the side of Bickerton Hill, Cheshire, England.
Hoarfrost covered trees on snow covered farmland at sunrise. Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Storm clouds over Lake Huron with Chantry Island on the horizon. Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
A touch of autumn colour on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Showcase Yourself.
Having been taking photos for over 40 years I had a few ideas for the challenge and changed my plans for the post several times. Eventually I decided to pick one image from each decade.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland in 1985. After 3 days of rain it stopped for a while.
Male and female American Avocets on a slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1995. I spent an hour with the birds, the only sighting of the species I have had.
An Osprey with a White Sucker on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada in 2008. I went down to the shoreline for the sunrise and stayed for a while checking out what birds were around.
Rainbow over a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada in 2017. The rain was too heavy to stop for a shot of the rainbow over some trees in their autumn colour. A quarter mile later the rain had eased off enough to stop.
This is my contribution to day 29 of Becky’s October Squares: Lines photo challenge.
A section of a rainbow. Taken with a telephoto lens when I was sitting in a bird watching hide (blind) on a reservoir in south Cheshire, England.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Seeing Double.
Three doubles from Ontario, Canada.
Two Coneflowers.
Two rainbows.
Two Sandhill Cranes.
Three doubles from Cheshire, England.
Two Pond Skaters making more Pond Skaters.
Two Fly Agaric.
Two Great Crested Grebes.