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Who rained on my G-Day..?

Today we had planned an outing on the Bruce Trail. However, we were undecided as to which access point to take – Limehouse or Mono Mills. Finally, we opted for Limehouse because it was a bit closer and headed off. No sooner had we arrived when the heavens opened and it poured. At this point […]

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Holiday Spirits

There is something incredibly awesome about this place.  There are no mountains – just high land and lake – huge lake and rock – so much rock that you wonder if there is anything else except rock and trees and water. It was when I went to see the pictographs that I realized what else

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Thunder Bay

We left last Friday August 31 to drive our daughter to Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and tomorrow we will head back to TO.  It’s been a great trip!!! The drive for the most part is spectacular with gorgeous views of Lake Superior and the highlands. Thunder Bay has a lovely waterfront park and the

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Sunday..Sunday..

I know that the song is Monday, Monday, but yesterday – Sunday was awesome – in a spiritual sense it really was a holy day.  First there was the sun – all day and the angels in the sky….. And then there was nature at her loveliest…Swan Lake, for example…. And then there was the

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Summer on the Mountain

On and off throughout the last 40 or 50 years Blue Mountain has been a destination for me with friends and/or family. My Grandfather actually owed a “public house” in Grey County before prohibition…so maybe for the last 100 years or so I have had connections to the area. I learned to ski there in

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Hot Stuff…..

This is sad but also ironical. Did the Firehall Pizza Co. serve pizzas that were too hot? This is/was a restaurant up at Blue Mountain Village. It looks like the damage to the building, though extensive, is repairable.  Hopefully no one was injured. We were able to get away for a few days over the

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A winter’s walk….

It snowed last night…one of those deep white snows that makes everything look like a fairyland, especially when the sun shines and it shone today!!! We went for a walk just to be out in this wonderful landscape.  Well, we weren’t the only ones.  Along the way, we passed some professional photographers. With cameras the size of Bazookas, lawn

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