A nature writer who has been my idol for about 60 years is the late Sigurd F. Olson of Ely, Minnesota. The title of his first book was The Singing Wilderness. Now, how can that not make you want to read it? His home ground was the Quetico-Superior canoe country northwest of Lake Superior. ButContinue reading “Living in harmony with the land and water”
Category Archives: Just Thoughts
Blending in
I’ve been wanting to sound off about this for years. Now’s my chance, so here goes. From the time the first cottages began appearing along the Georgian Bay shore up until around the early 1930s, many owners for some reason wanted them to stand out, be noticed — whatever — and painted them white, maybeContinue reading “Blending in”
Special places
There are special places at Georgian Bay that we should leave alone. Particularly if they are on private or First Nations land. We may not understand why, but to someone, somewhere, these places have a deep meaning. Long before Europeans came to Georgian Bay indigenous people had remote locations where they rested the remains ofContinue reading “Special places”
