It’s a very Buddhist moment, representing many lives ending but able to celebrate it with a visual feast knowing that come spring they’ll re-appear as strong as ever.  It’s these seasons that I’ve missed and the atmosphere they create, one of the great joys of being back in Ontario.

We’re not the only ones who are reacting to the seasonal changes either – the salmon have begun their own pilgrimage up the rivers to spawn.  Sauble Falls is only 15 minutes away and apparently a great point to witness the fish forcing their way up the river – unlike those in Alaska though the fish are few and far between so we haven’t had the luck of catching one in action.

Halloween and Thanksgiving are approaching fast so plenty of festivities to be had and we’re keeping busy with work.  It’s sad to think we’ll have to shut the cottage in under a month – we’ve grown attached to the little place but we knew it was coming…

Jamie and Louisa paid a visit a few weeks ago, large steaks were consumed – hung for 3 weeks – and accompanied by peaches and cream corn on the cob. We made a terrible go of smors, chocolate and marshmallow on a graham cracker for the un-initiated, over a freshly laid fire pit in the dead calm of the night. It was a spectacular evening which included a great Ontario wine, a baco noir from Henry Pelham in St. Catherines.

A few nights with the folks up here before we bounced back down to Oakville via London to visit Jamie and Lousia and Jamie’s parents place and learnt a lot about chemistry and the night sky from Dave.

Today was spent at the Bruce Peninsula National Park, beautiful turquoise water and Canadian Shield rocks to rest on were just what the doctor ordered.  The Groto ( below ) was bursting with colour.

Work is picking up and the leaves are changing colour – hopefully we’ll do some fall scenery photo expeditions in October, though it looks like it’s all happening sooner than expected.

Besides the weather, trees, hummingbirds and serenity the biggest bonus this last week was the successful installation of high speed internet – with this there’s no excuse to not be connected.  Eastlink is offering it up here and they recently upgraded their service to offer both 30mbps ( which we have ) and 100mbps which is far more than most residential customers would ever need – though it would come in handy if we take on larger projects.

This last week has been organizing all our apples in a row and now the fun begins!

This falls squarely under the heading Lifestyle Design, it is what you make of it.  With that said, here’s a taste…