The cottage

Canadian sunsets are not just words, but convey an event, revered by myself and shared with others. The cottage looks across the expanse of lake Huron to the West. The only intervening elements between our island deck and the horizon is blue water. This water takes on the colors of sunset; yellows, oranges, pinks and purples. I have seen, upon rare ocassion, flashes of green; none so far this year. Each sunset is unique and entertaining although not everyone in our party is prone to get out to the deck before each sunset. The beauty and spectacular nature of these events are special to me.

We have been at the cottage for some time, I can hardly keep tract. The endless days of summer still are not enough time to get everything I want to do in one day, done. The warmth of each day, the sparkle of the water, the gentleness of the day's breeze multiply one another so that the product of the whole experience is greater than the sum of its parts. Night time equally contributes to the summer's magic: starry starry nights, a late night full moon gives form to the trees's shadows. The night sounds of the forest contribute to the ambiance.

Trips with the young children to Sandy Beach, even so briefly as an hour, brings joy to thier faces and our hearts. Splash and swim, dive and cough as they gulp some water. The water has been incredibly warm. The undulating sandy bottom has shallows followed by progressively deeper areas, followed yet again by shallows, then deep. Gentle waves come ashore yeilding squeals of laughter and shouting from the children bobbing in their breaking crests.

Another trip to Flower Pot, via "fast boat", swimming in the Georgean Bay at the base of the large flower pot' cold spray from the bow wake of the returning glass bottom boat and a 25 mph head wind does not deter the children from falling asleep in our arms. Another meal in the Little Tub, with lunch a Craig's and dinner at the Crow's Nest, Ice cream at the Sweet Shop, then homeward bound.

My Sail and Cruising World magazines speak to these idlic episodes in one's life, to be had by purchasing a yacht, yet, within our experience, daily, we have it all right here.