Essex and Erie

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This photo is not typical of the area where I grew up (there are usually more trees than one would see on the Prairies or Great Plains), but it accentuates how flat the land is in Canada's two most southerly counties, Essex and Kent. This was taken alongside Highway 3, near Merlin, Ontario where it follows the Lake Erie shoreline.

The next photo was taken on the opposite side of the road, showing the height of the sand bluffs. In the 1970s my parents (like most of our neighbours) had tonnes of limestone rock dumped to prevent high water from eroding our property this way. Now our bluff is densely overgrown with trees and shrubs. Water levels have fallen and willows are beginning to take root on low dunes.



Both the previous photos were taken on my drive home yesterday.

The next two were taken on Thursday near my parents' house when a thunderstorm moved through around dinnertime.














Two more images of the thunderstorm are posted in weather_pics: prelude, and storm front.

Finally, here's one more bonus image of the Detroit skyline taken from Dieppe Gardens in Windsor earlier the same afternoon.