This poem has been rolling around in my head for a week or so now. I usually remember it in autumn because its colours are more Fall than Spring. I know, often the very first sign of Spring is a haze of yellow, as the leaf buds swell, however, this is never as spectacular as […]
Last Saturday the forecast was for 25ºC and sun. We decided to forego our usual routine of grocery shopping and house cleaning to savour the few remaining days of really good weather. In the morning, with lunch packed, we headed out to the Hockley Valley to hike that area of the Bruce Trail plus two
A while ago, I traded the ironing of my son’s shirts for some of his tech savvy. I decided, the other day, to cash in a few of the points I had accumulated and have him set us up on Netflix. “Take that, Rogers on Demand.” Even though my husband and I are polar opposites
I try to avoid rush hour in the city. I am not a patient person in a queue and I am always looking for an escape. Unfortunately, last night, I had to take my son downtown about 6:00pm to deliver a piece of artwork to a client. That meant gridlock down and back, sigh! I
I felt today that I needed to write something – but what? It was actually easier to write last year when I accepted a challenge to write a blog a day for the year. In fact, I did write 365 blogs in 2013, maybe not everyday, but sometimes I wrote three in one day. This
As predicted, it was raining Monday morning when we set out to drive back to TO. We would have planned another walk, except there was little chance that the weather would change, so we just hunkered down and accepted “the wrath of God.” Anyway the plan was to have coffee and a muffin at the
This oh no! moment came after lunch. There are these times in life, when we seem to move from the tediously mundane to the very cliff edge of existence in just a few minutes (OK, maybe half an hour). Let’s begin with the mundane, lunch. It was difficult to find a decent sandwich shop in
Finally a day of almost complete sun. After breakfast at Craigies in Tobermory, we drove to the Fathom V National park, paid our entrance fee – less than $15.00 – sorry I can’t remember it exactly – sun fever no doubt 🙂 and began our walk. Here you have a choice of trails to take
I can’t say Tobermory without thinking of the character, Uncle Tobermory, from the Wombats of Wimbledon, but that’s an aside. Tobermory at the end of the Bruce Peninsula, where the ferry leaves for Manitoulin Island, is a very popular spot. Its main recreational activity seems to be underwater diving. We saw several groups of divers
In Lion’s Head, on the Bruce Trail, we stayed at a lovely B&B called “The Cat’s Pajamas.” Located in a delightful old house and maintained by a wonderful hostess, who fed and entertained us, The Cat’s Pajamas is one of several B&Bs in the area, listed on the B&B network. Lion’s Head also has a
