Rolling Through The Prairies

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Location: Rural Saskatchewan Canada
“Land of The Living Skies.”

Photographer/Author: John Zeus

A strikingly beautiful woodland wildflower…

Riverdale neighbourhood, Toronto, Canada | White Trilliums are some of my favourite woodland wildflowers. If you pick one it will take seven years to grow back.

It’s Earth Day when wild White Trilliums blossom in the garden. Native to the eastern woodlands of North America they blanket the forest floor in early spring.

A rarity, illegal to pick or transplant in some states and provinces because they take several years to recover. Provincial flower of Ontario and State flower of Ohio. Listed as an endangered wildflower in the State of Maine.

My Shot – John Zeus's Gallery: Photo 1 – National Geographic Magazine.

Can you guess the continent or city of this Starbucks location?

Where in the world is this?

Photographer/Author: John Zeus 2012.

Youth Expression…Art…

The many laneways of downtown St. John’s Newfoundland offer plenty of colourful encounters. “Legal Graffiti” spaces help revitalize lane ways in the downtown area. Many people would normally not walk through this walkway photographed here because “it was so dingy and it looked so bad”. Now, because of the graffiti many more people travel through the back lanes.

St John’s legal wall quote

St. John’s Laneways 2

St. John’s Laneways 3

St. John’s Laneways 4

St. John’s Laneways 5

Endangered African penguin at the Toronto Zoo, a.k.a. black-footed penguin and formerly as the jackass penguin.

Penguin chick hatched in Toronto Zoo breeding program – Toronto – CBC News.

Summer Solstice | Bay Bulls, Newfoundland.
It was an exhilarating marine wildlife boat ride. Majestic Humpback Whales, Atlantic Puffins, Rocky Islands shrouded in fog, the tune of the Irish Fisherman’s song, North Atlantic winds, Screech to warm the bones. Few words can describe this experience.

Nature-based tourism is a fundamental driver of the viability of some communities in Newfoundland and Labrador. Given the importance of whale watching as an attractor of visitors to the province, whale conservation is a key ingredient in the policies that promote tourism in the province.

Puffins

Photographer/Author: John Zeus