There are many
trails and parks through Halton Hills - including the world famous Bruce
Trail that runs along the Niagara Escarpment. I enter off of Highway #25
just north of Milton. The dead end street is Helena Road and the trails
lead along the escarpmet and also into the bush beside a marsh.
We will try to
get up to the Collingwood area soon to see what the trees look like up
near Georgian Bay.
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October
4, 2007
Acton High School
Awards for 2006
The 2007 Academic
Awards Evening which celebrated student excellence for the 2006/2007 year
was held in the Acton High School Cafetorium. Kevin joined his fellow Acton
High School Band members to provide music for the event. Kevin is changing
up his instruments - he was playing the trumpet but now has switched to
flute. The girl beside him (far left) is Tanya - the top grade 9 student
at Acton HS. Kevin received an Honours Society Award for his grade 9 marks.
When he was called
up to the stage to get his award Kevin pulled the old fake out handshake
on his favourite teacher - Mr Brown, then gives him a hug to make up for
the joke.
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October
7, 2007
Thanksgiving at
Armstrong's
Ann's relatives,
Jane and Bruce Armstrong, invite us up to Thanksgiving at their farm near
Orillia. We meet up with Ann's parents, Cathy and Don, and join the large
gathering for a great feast. Afterwards we walk through the pastures and
by the barn filled with hay. Don Mincoff takes the picture of us (James,
Ann and Erin - Kevin was trying to meet the barn cats) among the hay bales.
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October
8, 2007
Crowded Badlands
After a wild weekend
weather wise we enjoy a warm sunny (record breaking temperatures) at the
Cheltenham Badlands in Caledon, Ontario. I was surprised at the amount
of people that were on site. There was even a photo team doing a model
shoot - which inspired the kids to do some poses of thier own.
You can see some
more pictures
here of our visit along with some earlier pictures taken in 2006.
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October
18, 2007
Toronto Subway
I spent a few days in Toronto attending a PWU
health and safety course in the Yonge and Eglinton area. The course, the
students and the teachers were great and it was a lot of fun to get away
for awhile. I walked in the area and down Yonge Street and went on the
Belt Line park
bridge to get a view of the TTC subway cars in the open area south of Eglinton.
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October
20, 2007
The Caves of Collingwood
Fall weather had
taken a turn for the worse when we ventured into the Collingwood area for
a look at the colours of the trees and an adventure at the Scenic
Caves of Collingwood. The wind was blowing, the rain was raining and
the cool was cooling! We still had fun and we were lucky that the trees
hadn't lost most of their leaves even this late in the season. By the trip
home the sky had cleared up and we stopped at the Melancthon
wind farm for a view of their GE wind turbine installation.
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October
21, 2007
Toronto Zombie
Walk
Joe and I head
to undead central during the 2007 Zombie walk held in Toronto since 2003.
The recently living gathered in Trinity Bellwood Park - although I had
brought Joe to Trinity Square by the Bell headquarters, so we rushed to
the park and were amazed by the huge crowd of people participating in the
event. The sidewalks along Queen St W, Bathurst and Bloor were full of
the parade of zombies in search of brains. You can see more of my pictures
from the journey through hell here.
