I almost forgot, it's the first day of spring today, the earliest in 100 years! Wouldn't you know it, the temperature has been plunging down to sub-freezing levels all day!
Friday, March 20, 2020
No Skiing Today!
We took a long drive to Barrie yesterday. I just stayed in the car but Mrs. F.G. had an errand to run. Picked up a few pictures along the way to keep you (and me) amused.
It's the public school March Break this week, normally one of the most popular weeks of the season at our ski clubs. But all this is shut down, so no skiing today! These are two of the runs at Georgian Peaks.
Not even the ski lifts were running and the parking lot was empty.
You get a very brief clear view of the bay for a minute, uninterrupted by cottages; it was looking pretty gray.
How's this for a perfect photo fail from a moving car! Ah!, but did you spot the lighthouse!?
Once we got east of Stayner, we were driving through a perfectly flat landscape of farm fields. I doubt that one in a thousand people recognize that this is the flat bottom of glacial Lake Algonquin, which extended far inland south of Wasaga Beach 12,000 years ago.
Here we're looking down from the ancient shoreline bluff over an eastern extension of the old glacial lakebed as we got closer to Barrie. I mention this because archeologists have discovered that the paleo-era native peoples in southern Ontario tended to follow these ancient beachlines (in what was then a sub-Arctic landscape) to hunt caribou. The glaciers were still only 1-200 miles to the north I find this ancient history fascinating.
And here at home the snow is now virtually gone, at least looking out the back windows. I watched the one tiny patch of snow out there (just behind the red hanging birdfeeder) finally disappear this morning.
I almost forgot, it's the first day of spring today, the earliest in 100 years! Wouldn't you know it, the temperature has been plunging down to sub-freezing levels all day!
I almost forgot, it's the first day of spring today, the earliest in 100 years! Wouldn't you know it, the temperature has been plunging down to sub-freezing levels all day!
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Here in Pennsylvania all businesses other than "life-sustaining" are supposed to be closed but the irresponsible folks at the beer distributor and gun shop in town are still open -- hope the constabulary pays them a visit. Rain today, so those of us who are isolating ourselves are really bored.
ReplyDeleteQuiet day at our end of Algonquin East. I woke up with a (rare, thank goodness) migraine, so mostly laying in a darling bedroom. M. Had to make a quick supply run to the grocery store, so we are now good for another week. Looking forward to a clear day for a walk in the woods.
ReplyDeleteIt's good you got out. It is rather boring staying in most of the time.
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to get out without too much Social Contact.
ReplyDeleteBe Safe and Enjoy!
It's about time.
Nice you got out for a bit. Great photos along the way. Couldn't believe this morning here it was 62 degrees!
ReplyDeleteSeeing those ski hills gave me an urge to...….no, not ski, but to get me a toboggan and launch myself down those hills. I'm old and wise enough now to know I'd probably not survive a trip down on skis but with a toboggan I'd have half a chance of reaching the bottom all in one piece. Know what you mean by perfect photo fails.....happens to me every day:((
ReplyDeleteHere, all those over 70 are urged to stay home. Friends are offering to do shopping, not sure if our local library will stay open, in a large city they have all closed. Loved those patches of snow, and the empty ski slopes, this Covid 19 has far reaching effects on so many.Here they are saying the AirNZ staff may be redeployed to help Healthline man the phones or maybe something else? Spring? We are into Autumn with cold mornings. Take care.XXX
ReplyDeleteThat flat landscape looks very like our Fens and archaeologists have recently realised how important that area was to Late Stone Age and Bronze Age people. It makes perfect sense really, they would be ideally placed to exploit the resources of both the land and the water. Good that you are able to get out and about.
ReplyDeleteI did see the lighthouse so that picture was not a fail by any means even as a drive-by.
ReplyDeleteThe back yard looks lovely, similar to what we've been seeing on our last few days heading home. I hope not to see any of the white stuff now that we are here. Yesterday was gorgeous for most of the day but sure plunged once we arrived in London. Just a little set back until Tuesday, I hope. Stay healthy you two!
I thought that tree with the distant lighthouse is anything but a fail. Our ski area in the mountains here is also closed. Everything is, except for grocery stores and pharmacies. Scary times.
ReplyDeleteLove that fourth photo, FG.
ReplyDeletei think you did very well getting snaps from the car, i did see the lighthouse but only after you mentioned it!!
ReplyDeleteeverything is closed here too, everything. we have plenty of supplies and will not be food shopping!! it was 80 degrees here in new jersey yesterday, we had to put the air conditioning on as i am heat intolerant!!
It is good to get out for a ride! Stay safe!
ReplyDeleteTerrific shots! The temperature drop happened here too.
ReplyDeleteRestaurants are closed for dine in. Stores are out of eggs and bread as well as the paper products. I told my husband that folks are having to cook at home instead of going out to eat. Ha!
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