What's Your Favourite Sign Of Spring/Summer In Peterborough?

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We want to know what your favourite sign of spring/summer is in Peterborough and the Kawarthas?

Could it be the falls at Millennium Park flowing?

Or the train starting up for another season at Riverview Park & Zoo?

Centennial Fountain coming on at Little Lake?

Photo by Doug Logan

The Lift Lock moving up and down?

Photo by Patrick Stephen

What about the outdoor Farmers Markets? The Silver Bean on the Otonabee River opening up?

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Look At These Beauty Light Pillars Over Peterborough Tonight

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James Todd captured this stunning image of light pillars on Sunday night (January 29th). "I took the picture just off Lily Lake Road, facing towards the city," he tells PTBOCanada.

City lights reflecting off Moisture Crystals

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Plant It Forward: A Class At Immaculate Conception Elementary School Created A Food Forest

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Lead by the folks at GrowHappy.ca, Immaculate Conception elementary school in Peterborough created a "food forest" as part of an amazing class project on Thursday (June 23rd). Mitch Champagne's Grade 6/7 class collaborated with Mim Devitt's Grade 1 class to create a permaculture food forest.

Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered around simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems.

A Food Forest is a low maintenance sustainable plant-based food production and agroforestry system based on woodland ecosystems—incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, vines and perennial vegetables which have yields directly useful to humans.

Teacher Mitch Champagne, who live tweeted much of the day (see some below), says their School Based Food Forest Permaculture project focused on teaching students about food systems, habitat, environmentally sustainable farming practices, cooking, preserving, seed gathering and propagation, pollination and more.

Champagne says there is a great deal of research that links gardening in youth with positive mental health—something GrowHappy.ca espouses as part of their "Plant It Forward" approach—and the class explored these links.

"It was an incredible opportunity to create a sustainable Food Forest with our students," Champagne tells PTBOCanada of this memorable day. "The children brought so much energy, curiosity, and wonder to the whole experience. They really understood the links to positive physical and mental health and were very eager to 'Plant It Forward.'"

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Peterborough Woman Takes Pro-Active Measures To Help Turtles Near Busy Streets

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On the way to work Monday morning, PTBOCanada contributor Julie Morris spotted this turtle below laying eggs on Johnson Drive in Peterborough.

Julie was worried about the turtle's safety all day—as many others are about other turtles near busy streets and highways—and tweeted about it, and we posted about it on our Facebook page as well to get the word out.

Right after work, Julie headed to the dollar store to buy pylons and work gloves so she could go back and mark the spot where the turtle and its babies were so drivers wouldn't hit her. 

Julie Morris

"I went back, but the turtle is gone...you can see the swirls from her burying the eggs," she says.

She's keeping the work gloves and cones in her car should she come across other turtles near busy roads.

***If you spot an injured turtle, contact the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre.

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Look At These Perseid Meteor Shower Pictures Over The Otonabee River

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Niki Allday captured these stunning pics Sunday night (August 9th) of the Perseid Meteor Shower. They were taken in Lakefield with the Otonabee River as a perfect backdrop...

photo courtesy Niki Allday

photo courtesy Niki Allday

photo courtesy Niki Allday

photo courtesy Niki Allday

photo courtesy Niki Allday

photo courtesy Niki Allday

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This Photo Of Canada Geese On Little Lake Wins The Weekend

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This stunning picture of two geese taken by Tony Bianco at Little Lake in front of Centennial Fountain wins the weekend. Make this a postcard.

Yep, these geese picked the perfect backdrop for their Date Day...

Geese kinda ruled the weekend. This one's great, too...

Oh, and geese even turned up in this awesome nature photo, photobombing deer...

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Who Does This Peterborough Flower Look Like?

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Peterborough photographer Matt Stewart took these pics of a flower in the east end of Peterborough that resembles many things.

picture via @thepixvideoguy

picture via @thepixvideoguy

We see a resemblance to Chewbacca from Star Wars, The Grinch, an owl, a shih tzu, Hugh Keays-Byrne (Toecutter) in Mad Max and more.

picture via @thepixvideoguy

picture via @thepixvideoguy

****Who do you think Peterborough flower looks like? Post to our Comments section below or our Facebook post. Or tweet us.

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Beauty Auroras Captured Outside Of Peterborough

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Before the clouds rolled in, Ralph&Co.Confections captured this stunning pic last night of the Auroras just ouside Peterborough...

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Stunning Ice Mosaic On The Otonabee

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Nora Mickee

Nora Mickee

Spring is coming, and the ice is melting on lakes and rivers—and with that, comes some neat formations. Nora Mickee from Studio-N captured this beauty Instagram picture of a "ice mosaic" on the Otonabee. As she also describes of the image, it looks like "floating marble".

Ice mosaic on the Otonabee. It looks like floating marble #Spring #riverice #breakup @Ptbo_Canada

"Ice mosaic on the Otonabee. It looks like floating marble #Spring #riverice #breakup @Ptbo_Canada"

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