Another Drive to Keady Market

Mrs. F.G. wanted to get a quantity of plum tomatoes for making tomato sauce, so we decided to drive to Keady Market the Tuesday after Labour Day.  Cottagers and tourists would have gone home, leaving us with thinner crowds to battle.  Little did we know that the market changes a lot itself after Labour Day.  This time I thought I would bring you some pictures of barns on the drive over, though we did find a couple of other interesting things.

Heading down Grey Road 12 I always like this barn. It's mostly hidden behind trees, but the giant Canadian flag on its roof still shows up fine.  I have the distinct impression the flag was repainted in recent years.

A little further on is a farm with this incredible dry stone wall all across the front.  It had become overgrown, but has been cleaned up nicely.  I suspect that this is evidence of a nearby outcropping of the thinly-bedded Manitoulin Formation, one of the lower layers of the Niagara Escarpment.

Just beyond that we saw how quickly the crops were changing.  This bright yellow Canola field had been green three weeks earlier.

Most people fly by this spot, the sign isn't really big enough to slow them down.  But on a sandy knoll hidden among those trees back there is one of our local pioneer cemeteries, this one still in use.

Then we came upon one of the most interesting crop combinations we've ever seen, sunflowers and corn, though it's an immature stand of corn presumably being grown just for silage.  They had taken advantage of the sunflowers popping up in the fields to offer a few for sale.  Has anyone ever heard of anything similar?

I'm quite sure this is a new barn and silos, built in the last few years.

This one is obviously an older barn, now the only building left on a large community pasture just south of Waters Falls.

This is also obviously an older barn, with an interesting set of outbuildings and additions.  By then we were close to the market, so I'll bring you photos of the surprising change there next.