Buckshot Lake 2017

If it wasn't for September there would have been no Summer at all.

September 21 2017

Closing the Cottage for another year

Bon Echo Park

During the Roaring Twenties, Bon Echo was a major centre for the arts in the summertime and nearly all members of the Group of Seven painted and sketched there. They were drawn to the magnificent landscape and artistic values of the Bon Echo Inn, which was owned by a Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison.Jun 3, 2014

Bon Echo features several lakes, including part of Mazinaw Lake, the second-deepest lake in Ontario. The southeastern shore of Mazinaw Lake features the massive 100 m (330 ft) high Mazinaw Rock, an escarpment rising out of the water, adorned with many native pictographs. The unofficial mascot of Bon Echo Park is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero, Nanabush, who is among the 260 plus pictographs found in the area. Pictographs are often confused with petroglyphs, which are rock carvings rather than the rock paintings found on Mazinaw.

The scrawny tree located in the center above and below is reported to be over 2,000 years old and for that reason alone it deserves at least 2 pictures.

Remic Rapids

On the drive home from the Mosicanada we took the parkway and made a stop to wonder at the tranquility of the river and the stacked rocks.

Mosaicanada 150 Celebrations

MOSAÏCANADA 150 / Gatineau 2017 Free, Major June 30 to October 15 For 107 days, Jacques-Cartier Park will host the biggest horticultural event in Canada, with MosaïCanada 150/Gatineau 2017. Mosaiculture is a most spectacular horticultural technique that combines the following different art forms sculpture for the structure paint for the palette of colours, and horticulture as the means of creating living and changing artworks with plants. The theme of the Gatineau exhibit will reflect 150 years of history, values, culture and arts in Canada, represented by some 40 different arrangements. Admission to the MosaïCanada 150/Gatineau 2017 exhibit in Jacques-Cartier Park will be free. The exhibit will be in the form of a route extending over almost one kilometre. Each visit will last approximately 90 minutes.

The park was easy to find after we did a little research and asked family and friends for advice . The parking was next to impossible at the on-site lot. A friendly attendant told us to forget it; that we should exit and drive straight north for a couple of blocks and we would find local residents renting spaces for less than the the rates on-site. His advice proved correct and we easily located a space at Etienne and Maissoneuve.

 Driftwood Horses