Seasons in the Valley + Furry Gnome's Adventures

I showed one picture in yesterday's post on the apple harvest of the 'new face of apple orchards' in Ontario, high density plant...

The northern end of the Beaver Valley is the largest apple-growing area in Ontario, and it's apple harvest time this year.  It seems to ...

I was much encouraged to see my first Monarch butterfly in two years on the last day of summer, but over the next two weeks it stayed around...

First frost yesterday, and all our squash and tomato plants are gone.  The leaves are turning, and fall is definitely here!  Wild apples are...

We gathered for our local Photo Group's annual barbecue and sunset shoot 10 days ago.  The barbecue was fabulous (with great deserts), b...

As the sun moves steadily south at this time of year, and the time of sunrise gets steadily later, we reach a time when I'm actually up ...

On Labour Day weekend, with our daughter, her husband and our grandson, we headed up to Big Bay to check out the stone skipping beach on Geo...