I was out runnning errands when I drove by one of Bracebridge’s many falls. It was a sight worth stopping for. All I can say is Wow. (And that I’m glad I live on high ground.)
This is the town’s parking lot where I got out for a closer look at the Muskoka river. I have to confess to feeling rather nervous parking here. I had no desire for my Odyssey to go on, well, an odyssey. It looked like it would be fairly easy to set sail from this vantage point.
Yes, the town docks and walkway are completely submerged. River water would periodically splash up on the guard rails. Then I took some footage of the falls themselves. This is a still of the silver bridge in the background and the hydro generating station on the left:
I also took some movie footage with my digital camera. In an attempt to string together the clips into one movie I started playing with iMovie. I claim no expertise in any visual arena but I did come up with something that amused me in no more than about an hour (I had about a bazillion other things I should’ve been doing during that hour but let’s put that time down to personal growth–har!).
Here is my iMovie debut:
Obviously I have a lot left to figure out…but it was fun fooling around with the software. And trust me: if I can do this so can you!
I had the pleasure of reading at the fifth annual Evening of Words, Music, Art & Wine in Dorset, Ontario on Friday April 11.
I read Let’s Go, of course. Thanks to James Jones, Dorset’s famed garlic farmer and the evening’s MC, for encouraging everyone to browse the book to see Scot Ritchie‘s fabulous illustrations for themselves.
We sampled cranberry, cranberry blueberry, and blueberry wines as well as the Red Maple dessert wine from Muskoka Lakes Winery. Music performances by Zoe Chilco and Albert John Saxby kept us all entertained. Word is the evening will be broadcast on Haliburton’s Canoe FM sometime in the future.
Thanks to Melissa Alfano for putting together such an enjoyable evening.
If you’ve browsed this blog a bit I’m sure you haven’t failed to notice that I complained about the snow an awful lot. Turns out I might have been justified in grumbling…at least a little.
Yes, I’m Canadian. Yes, I live in a rural area. Yes, I should be used to snow. But nearly 18 feet in one winter? According to this article in The Bracebridge Examiner that’s how much snow my part of the world got this winter. The highest in the province!
All I can say is we’re lucky we had two partial melts in there.
And speaking of melts, it looks like it’s finally underway for real! For the last week or so it’s been a pleasure to see these signs of spring:
* the beaver paddling along the narrow shoreline melt * the sound of a woodpecker calling and hammering * the call of the redwing blackbird! Love those guys. * mud * a pair of great blue herons flying overhead * the mallards are back
And personally, as the highway snowbanks shrink, I find it fascinating to see how many guardrail posts the snowplows took out over the winter. This year they hardly demolished any. Good job!
