Avoid Contact with this Toxic Plant
At the moment, many of our rural roads are lined with wild parsnip, which like many plants this season are thriving. While beautiful, these plants can leave permanent scars on exposed skin. An invasive species, it appears on the provincial list of toxic weeds. Like giant hogweed and other members of the carrot family,…
Pinto’s Corners Weekly Car Show
Pictured is Grant Moffat with his 1966 Chevrolet at the weekly car show at Pinto’s Corners. He purchased this car when he was 19 years old and has owned it ever since. The 18 years it spent in storage likely helped preserve all of the original interior components. Seat covers protected the white leather…
Pondering
Journaling has been my major form of meditation for over forty years. Often when I can’t sleep, I get up, sit in my favourite chair, drink a cup of warm milk and write down the thoughts racing through my mind. I journal what has happened in the past or might happen in the future.…
Common Ground – August 2023
“The rain that makes things new…”. John Masefield We have been blessed with a lot of rain so far this summer. It seems that every time I empty the rain gauge in the garden there is at least an inch of rain in it. The last heavy rain that fell here was more like…
Brisa Social Creates a Social Media Buzz for the Aesthetics Industry
Brígh Findlay-Shields of Millbrook first got her start in social media marketing as a sixteen year old. She had developed an e-boutique selling her own equestrian accessories and was looking for a cheap (or free) way to drive traffic to her online shop. The result was an organically created social media strategy in which…