August light; Bon Echo

August is my favourite month, partly because we can still count on nice weather here in Ontario. Minus blackflies and mosquitoes.

But I suspect another reason is the amazing quality of light. Night comes earlier and more quickly, but not before this golden rapture. All afternoon slowly falls into it. I struggled with my camera to capture it. Some strange photos came home from our trip to Bon Echo.

Brenna is featured in several of these.

The first two shots were actually taken in a picnic area beside Silver Lake, west of Perth, where we stopped for dinner on our drive back from Ottawa Monday evening.





The next one was taken at Mazinaw Lake with Bon Echo rock in the background. This place warrants a more extensive description, but I have already written one this evening for my August instalment of Living With Nature at Suite101.





The day we climbed the rock, I heard a guy say to his travelling partner, "Bon Echo must be the most beautiful provincial park in Ontario." I say, "Perhaps. For those people unwilling to go far out of the way." The rock Marian and I mounted on Rock Lake in Algonquin Park in July was just as spectacular. It might not have been quite as high, but was less crowded and spoiled. I'm sure Ontario has many more awesome scenes for the more adventurous traveller. However, Bon Echo ranks among the prettiest spots I've visited in this province.

Click the link for two more shots of the rock itself. These are followed by one photo from Marble Lake near the hamlet of Myers Cave during a short trip to buy ice. Finally, I'll wrap up the tour with one more shot back at Silver Lake.

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Unfortunately the photos from Ottawa were unremarkable, so I won't bother to post any here.

Also published today is my August ecology article, Importance of wetlands, inspired by our visit to Point Pelee National Park earlier this month.

Now I'll disappear again until next weekend. Then I'll be home for good.