early morning fog shifts and slides and dissapate quickly

 

Your Carrots Coming Soon From The Marsh

Your Onions Coming Soon - A Brief History, April to July, 2011

April 14, 2011 - cleaning up the fields - this stuff rises to the surface annually

 

April 16, 2011- working the muck

May 10, 2011,  Onions & Wheat seeded

Beautiful Fields- Filled with Promise

May 19, 2011 - Spraying (fertilizer?)

May 30, 2011: Wheat growing fast protecting the soil, little onion sprouts

June 22, 2011: Wheat has been killed off; onions growing well, workers cleaning, weeding?

June 24, 2011 - Fertilizer?

 

 

June 24, 2011

July 4, 2011 - Coming along just fine.

"I'm Thinking About It"

  During the "shoulder seasons", Jean and I get away for 1.5 days (2 sleeps) as often as we can (usually Sunday night and Monday).  From where we live now (Holland Marsh), there's a whole new world of camp grounds and sites within an hour or two.  Taken on the southern banks of Lake Ontario - Fourmile Creek SP.

Early Morning - The Lord's Day

Another Sun Rise in the Holland Marsh

Early Spring Sunrise Overlooking the Onion Fields - May 11, 2011, 5:18 a.m.

Annual Clean Up - April 14, 2011, 8:14 a.m.

The crazy thing is that every Spring the fields need to be cleaned by hand.  Huge roots, tree branches continue to rise up (from the deep?) and surface. This photo was taken April 14, 2011.

Dancing the Day Away -- Best Friends

Sage Advice

"If you need advice, I can give you some" ~Jehu

The Good Old Days -- 1933, RV'ing at its Best

We've Been Thinking of Camping

This trailer is from circa 1930.  I love the relaxed look and dress of the campers! Maybe they've just come home from a worship service at a local church.

Updates -- click the link or scroll down

I found a few more photos of flood's impact on the house in which we're living!

Flooded! Updates Click the link or scroll down to Dec 8, 2010

Dream Home Series ?

Went to a RV show in the International Centre in Toronto the other week. What you see here doesn't really fit in the "Dream Home Series" because ... it's a bus! 

Such a deal at $319,000!! (I think it's a Charleston 430BH). The upshot to all this is that we're even more happy with our pop up trailer.

Dream Home Series

Dream Home Series

While this house may not be of the vintage of the others in my "Dream Home Series", it caught my eye. Found in Grimsby on Lake st.

Morning Mist over Muck

New Every Morning

Ducks in the Morning

There's a ditch that runs straight back of our house toward the 400. Likely the water will not freeze. Makes a nice place for ducks in winter time. 

One particular early morning, as I was walking to get a better shot of the sun rise, suddenly these ducks took flight. This was the first wave.  As I continued, wave and wave flew away.

They circled high above until I had left. 

Sun Rise over the Marsh (note the "sun-dogs")

Ps 113:3

Sights like these don't last long. When they appear, it's a mad dash grabbing camera, coat, boots ... Get dressed, race out to the field and start clicking!

Life@1351 - Part 2

There are many beautiful experiences that make living in the Holland Marsh a pleasure.  Beside all the wonderful people, there are fabulous sights. Here are a few pictures I took on the first day of winter 2010.

(A view from our back yard - sunrise)

It's only a thought, but it seems that the land of the Marsh retains it's heat & moisture longer than other soils we know. First thing in the morning, even now near the end of December, it's not unusual for a fog of some sort, more like gentle mist to float over the land.  This particular morning, the mist had climbed the trees and frozen there to sparkle in the sun.

 
Psalm 147:16 (NIV)

  "He spreads the snow like wool

and scatters the frost like ashes."

Here's a comparison shot. It's not exact, but these give you the idea of a field covered with snow and the same field loaded with carrots ready for the harvest.