This ancient rock is a very short kayak from our back door. Ed Bartram's paintings are inspired by these many centuries ancient formations. To see his art, copy and paste the following into the URL bar,
A humpback whale in Georgian Bay?
Marianne and Sophie in her prettiest dress going to Kristian's wedding on Toronto Island. Sonja looking on.
Kiefer on the ferry also dressed in his finest to attend Kristian's wedding.
Sonja and Chris with Sophie and Oona.
Horsing around with Chris.
Oona came to join me for an early morning swim.
Oona playing in front of our house.
Sophie and Kiefer at the dock ladder.
Here are some favourite pictures from our time together up north and in town. Oona only wore dresses or ran around in the buff up north. Sophie and Oona were very sweet together. Between Kiefer and Sophie was friction, but when Sophie was gone Kiefer looked for her in empty rooms and called her name.
We pulled Oona on a surf board. She held on, stood up, balanced, and never fell off once. Waterskiis next year.
Oona's quiet time.
Kiefer insists on paddling. He had to learn to sit still.
Going for ice-cream.
Oona sat perfectly still in the Kayak with me. Paddling with her was easy.
Allan ferrying us around in the rain.
We only had a very rainy day the day we left to come down for Annelisa's 90th birthday party. Annelisa has 10 great grandkids who where all present at the party. The oldest is 10 years and the youngest is 4 months. Oona especially loves her second cousins Emily and Nora. Here they are playing ring around the rosie or tag or just plain running .
There is a deer living on our island! Alex forged, hacked and cut beautiful walking paths to the back bays and took this picture of a deer very early one morning. Here we are walking nicely, evenly, on one of his paths to sit and watch the sun set on a warm windy evening.
Here's Oona and Owen after flicking the water to urge on their minnows in the minnow races at the regatta.But the minnows swam the wrong way -away from the finish line. Oona shows a third place ribbon for her minnow who made it to the end of the track. Alex and Tom won first place in the mens' canoe race. And here is Oona and friend looking for bull frogs in the reeds of the frog pond.
Most exciting of all, Oona lost a lower front tooth. Luckily Sonja found the tooth inside the snorkle. The next day Oona lost the other front tooth at the regatta but we did not find it for the tooth fairly. She visited anyway. Here is Oona without a tooth baking cookies with me. Kiefer wants only to escape and get down to the boats. so Alex built a Kiefer-proof gate to contain him on the deck. Here's Oona reunited with Sidney - a favourite friend who lived in London with them for a while. Oona and Sidney are at her family cottage in Georgian Bay.
We cooked in teams of two with ingredients and recipes provided by opposing teams. Here is out first meal by chefs Chris and Sonja. Bison filets flambe with Allan looking in at the window. Next, chefs Allan and Marianne ran into a snag as chef Allan fell asleep as his ribs were slow cooking on the barbeque. The wind blew the fire out so their timing was off. Mariannes potatoes scored the most points from me. Alex's centre piece of Pre
When Oona sees her cottage friend from last year she yells, "Owen!" and he yells,
We are in Georgian Bay on our favourite swim rocks on a very hot, sunny and wavey day. Oona swims like a fish and had goggles to take a look at the striated rock formations under water. Kiefer puddled in warm puddles and Oona practiced sitting in the kayak with me and then kayaked back home with her daddy.
