A Yucky Day!

It's hard to think of a worse day weather-wise, than today.  With the temperature hovering just above freezing, and a cold rain most of the day, it was just about as unpleasant a day as you can imagine!  What snow we had turned to slush and the heavy dark cloud cover never changed.  No wonder November has such a bad reputation.  It wasn't quite so bad on Saturday when we headed down into the valley for a drive.

Not all the blackbirds have left for the south.

In the village of Heathcote, the Blackbird Pie Company provides the best fruit and meat pies in the region, as well as the cinnamon buns and scones that we left with.

As we got closer to Kimberley, you could see the far western slope of the valley. 

There are a number of farms on the eastern slope that we drove by.  This looks like it has been a prosperous farm, at least until recently.

This is a big barn, but I'm not sure it's actively used anymore.

As we got down to the bottom of the valley we came up against the huge Silver Maple swamp that occupies the valley floor.  And you could see where the road went up the western slope, after a gap for that swamp.

We drove beside that big swamp for nearly 5 miles.

until we came to the village of Kimberley.  Here the Beaver River curls around in front of the old Talisman ski runs.  Then it was back north to Meaford.