Greetings from fall in Ontario. Fall has been absolutely beautiful here this
year, with lots of bright colours and generally great temperatures, with one or
two nights of frost to tweak the leaves to change colour.
This week, we have had strong breezes and rain, bringing the
leaves down by almost 75%. Only the
beech and the oaks, traditionally late changers, have been clinging to their
foliage.
Earlier this week, we went for a walk in our woods, and you
can see the colours and the leaves. Red
squirrels had again left their mark, hiding mushrooms in branches.
We have some extremely old trees along 3 of our fence lines,
and were checking them out. I don’t know
how well this shows up in the picture, but this huge old oak has grown enough
to “ingest” the barbed wire fence that was strung up along it.
We got an opportunity to get a little unexpected culture a
couple of weeks ago. (These pictures
were not great because I took them from my cell phone, but it’s the thought
that counts….)
The city of Barrie is twinned with a city in Germany called
Zweibrucken. This year, a German band
came over and played several performances.
Brian and I had been invited, and were kind of expecting an “oompah”
band, but were we ever wrong! Yes, they
did play some drinking songs, but they also performed some rather spectacular
sets including a trio on alpenhorns.
That was a first for all of us.
They also had some performers who did some rather
spectacular syncopation music slapping their hands, feet, etc, as well as doing
a great skit with saws and axes. This is
highly recommended entertainment if you ever get the chance.
Although we got 2” of snow within the last week, it was all
gone in two days, and we are looking forward to some double-digit numbers (with
no minus in front of them) for the next few days. As you see, we continue to suffer out here…………..
