Common Ground – June 2021
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” Lucy Maud Montgomery At the end of spring and beginning of summer the poets narcissus is the last daffodil left standing. It’s an old and fragrant variety that doesn’t bloom until the cool weather has given way…
A Village Tree
If you venture onto Medd’s Mountain and “start low and go slow” you will find a small path on the lower trail that leads to a bench at the water’s edge where Baxter Creek joins the millpond. If you relax for a moment on this bench and look directly across the wetland you will…
Follow the Yellow Fish Road…. to Millbrook
Early this fall of 2021, Trout Unlimited Millbrook, partnering with Otonabee Region Conservation Authority and Girl Guide Canada, will bring to the community the Yellow Fish Road ProgramTM. This unique program builds on caring for our most precious resource, water. Millbrook is blessed with clean, cold, freshwater streams originating from the Oak Ridges Moraine. …
Life and Laughs Around the Legion
My introduction to the Gravenhurst Cenotaph was as a member of the Junior Band following WWII. The weather was usually cold, even snowing. The date was, and is, traditional: the 11th hour of the 11th day, of the 11th month, that marked the Armistice when WW l ended. My memories are still linked to the…
Ticks Are Back — and so is the risk of Lyme Disease
Taking a hike is good for both physical and mental health, but in that glorious outdoors lies a microscopic predator that could turn that effort into something that threatens rather than boosts your health. In woodlands, tall grasses and hiking trails across Ontario lie black-legged ticks. On average, one in five of these creatures…
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
If 2021 had a Woodstock month for astronomy, it would surely be June. This month will see a solar eclipse at dawn on June 10; Jupiter and Saturn in the same binocular view as the waxing moon in the wee hours of June 28; the summer solstice on June 21; and the steady rise…