Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A SHREWD DISCOVERY ON THE TRAIL Wednesday, January 17, 2007 (Napanee Beaver) Friday, January 19, 2007 (Picton Gazette) As we hit the trail at daybreak on the west side of Prince Edward County, there were moments when we both felt that our faces were…
THE LURE OF WALKING Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (Napanee Beaver) Friday, January 12, 2007 (Picton Gazette) Nipper has become famous. She turned up last year on the cover of a prominent trail brochure. Nipper is our Sheltie/Terrier dog and the photo was one that…
WOOD FIRES AND CHRISTMAS December 20 & December 22 I had the pleasure last week of participating in the Twelve Days of Christmas presentations at the Macaulay House Museum in Picton. I was the Four Calling Birds. However, there were only three of us – specimens…
POWER OF THE INTERNET December 13 & December 15 It seems difficult to imagine, that only 20 years ago, I refused to have anything to do with computers. Although our son and I played challenging games on his Vic-20, and later, a Commodore 64, the computer…
GREAT SCAT, WHAT WAS THAT ? December 06 & December 08 We found some animal scats atop a tree stump during a walk along a trail one recent weekend at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. However, the fellow who first discovered them, was a bit more explicit in…
HOW TO GET THROUGH WINTER November/December issue, 2006 It was well into winter about three years ago when I received an e-mail from a Tweed area resident about a frog she had found. She told of a wood frog, a name well founded in…
WALKING IN THE RAIN November 29 & December 01 One of the biggest hits in the 1950s by the late Johnny Ray was a song called, “Just Walking In the Rain.” While his song told of a lost lover, and the singer’s effort to drown his…
PLANTS PREPARE FOR WINTER’S CHILL November 22 & November 24 As a child growing up on the family farm on Big Island, I always found wheat kind of cool. I would relish the taste of it right out of the bin of the combine and would…
SURVIVING THE BIG FREEZE November 15 & November 17 There was a chipmunk calling last weekend at Sandbanks Provincial Park. Just for a moment, I was camping again in the Woodlands Campground where the emphatic chip of this energetic denizen of the woods is a familiar…
HISTORY ABOUNDS IN LOCAL CONSERVATION AREAS November 08 & November 10 When Quinte Conservation began its program of outdoor interpretive events in 1996, it seemed important right from the start to offer a blend of both natural and human history. Without this peek into the past…