Looking for a country outing this Victoria Day weekend? Consider the Warkworth Lilac Festival – three days of events in Northumberland county with lots to do. The Lilac Festival starts with a Friday evening of Sizzling Jazz featuring Chelsea Bennet and Beverly Taft – $20 at 7:45PM. Saturday follows with the Lilac Classic Car Show …
The first sign of Spring in Canada is the birdsong in the morning even before all the white has disappeared from a background of bleached light tan. A week or more later and night turns to day on equal footing and the humidity is up as below zero Centigrade nights, frost and chill vanish into …
Spring is my favorite time of year because Nature’s colors are a rare delicate and pastel hue. In short it is a season to imbibe and enjoy as a new cycle of vernal sounds, fragrances and colors cover the landscape. And if ye Editor is not mistaken, there is an invigoration in step and …
Our previous Ganny Fanny Post post showed the start of this Spring Naval Gazing … uhhhh Outing. The Ganny Fanny Float is virtually worry free except for water balloon bombs and return-fire water gunning. In short, a lot of Spring wet fun. But there is one hiccup literally along the way – the portage at …
If you “sail” down the Ganaraska River in the Ganny Fanny Float, your first real point of contact with the viewing public is as the Ganaraska flows under the Dale Road bridge just west of Highway 28. As can be seen in the photo below, the Ganny Fanny Float is through some rolling country side …
Weather Canada says it will be crisp and cool, about 5C and sunny for floating your Fanny down the Ganny this coming April 2 weekend. You may still have time to register a float/boat for the 8-10k sojourn on the Ganaraska river – check here, but act quickly. Otherwise come down to Dale Road just …
The Photo Contest for the 2011 Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival had a lot of good images submitted – over 100. And viewers can see the quality of the entries here. Thus , the judges had their work cut out for them. There were two categories for the images – Maple Syrup Festival Events and then …
All who attended the Maple Syrup Festival Art Show in Warkworth will have seen again more of Spirit of the Hillès Artist Sheree Rasmussen dazzling colorful quilt and textile works. Last year Sheree had a piece at the Spirit of the Hills Art Show that caught ye Editor’s hues of fancy. As one can see …
Here is the Final Set of Contest Photos Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival 2011 There are 105 photos and our thanks go to: Susan Abraham Zen Chaburski Ray Clarke Lisa Lamka Jack Surveyer Rusty Tims Jane Watcher Sue Williams for their fine photos – please checkout the gallery results above. The ten best pictures should be …
A sure sign that Spring is just around the corner is the Warkworth Maple Syrup Festival in Easter Ontario just below Rice lake. This year is the 25th anniversary festival celebrations and it appears the county and township have pulled out all the stops to making the weekend celebrations, Saturday and Sunday March 12-13, a …
Ye Editor was on the way home listening to Donna Leon’s mystery novel, About Face. The narrator, David Caliacci does such a good job I was almost looking for an opportunity to prolong the trip to 565 Red Cloud School Lane. And then the following two shots on either side of the road caught my …
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