An Old Order Mennonite woman sells summer sausages, a local specialty, in the sheltered porch of the St. Jacobs Farmers Market.
Horse-drawn tours for visitors to St. Jacobs, Ontario. Local Old Order Mennonites still travel by horse and buggy -- but nothing this colourful.
Feeding a goat in the summer petting zoo, St. Jacobs Farmers Market, Waterloo County, Ontario.
Heritage produce at the St. Jacobs Farmers Market, Waterloo County, Ontario.
Tourists stop at the Mount Etna research station to stretch and pick up a coffee or liqueur or souvenirs, but the communications and research infrastructure is hard to miss.
Tourists take "we-were-here" photos at a viewpoint along the road up Mount Etna. There are few small pieces of lava left on the other side of the low wall.
Volcanoes aren't just mountains that spew lava: they're entire ecosystems. This elderly fox is part of the ecosystem that includes tourists -- local bus drivers know where it will come out to get food by the side of road.
Along the twisting road up Mount Etna are homes that have been destroyed by lava flow and abandoned, homes in the path of future eruptions, and homes that seem to be made of the volcano itself. This home looks from its perch on the volcano's slopes southwest over the plains of Sicily to the sea.
At the edge of a lava flow, new life begins to take hold.
Older lava flows slowly become fertile, with this scrubby tree growth one of the first living things to colonize them.
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