Canada Road 2 - Lynne Pearl

AUGUST 23

Between Goderich and Kincardine,

Lake Huron

Great Lakes

Ontario

Sunset 30 minutes ago

BLUEBERRY PANCAKES FOR BREAKFAST

Today I made blueberry pancakes with fresh blueberries in them and then drove to a park in Kincardine. The drive is along wide roads with fields of good crops either side of the road as far as the eye can see. There are potatoes, corn, lots of corn, and other crops that I can’t identify but everywhere greenness and food grown to eat.

FARMHOUSES WITH VERANDAS

Then there are the old farmhouses dotted about, with wonderful verandas all around the house and gables, and balconies, beautiful in their own serene way. There’s tractors in driveways and barns, and far away the glow up to the sky of the lake, Huron, so wide it looks like a sea, as far as you can see there is water meeting the horizon. There is a wideness and sky and a clearness.

MOON RISES

Tonight, somehow I missed the sunset. Earlier the sun was crystal clear on the water, silver to the shore and clear. And I thought, it will be a great sunset tonight, I must go out and see it set.

SUNSET OVER LAKE HURON

MISTY SUNSET OVER THE GREAT LAKE

Then next time I turned around, the sun had disappeared completely under a blanket of soft mist so that there was no sun, no sliver of moon, no horizon, or lake, just a sort of softness out there and it had gone and I had missed it. So, we sat and chatted a bit quietly and sort of melted away.