Nothwinds Beach, Blue Mountains, ON

 Nice free beach west of Collingwood on Georgian Bay

 Someone put artificial palm trees on this island

Couchiching Beach Park / French's food stand, Orillia, Ontario

Couchiching Beach Park scale railroad, Orillia, Ontario - locals tell me that it originally was a steam train that operated in an amusement park that was next to this park. The steam train had to be replaced by this diesel as a steam engine requires more licensing - the steam train was sold back to the company that built it many decades earlier in Tonawanda, NY.

Bandstand

French's - built in 1920 by George French, a handicapped man. Stephen Leacock would walk from his house here to have tea, according to a 1995 article in the Orillia Packet and Times, from his summer house and have tea at these tables in the 1930s and 40s. He used to walk along the CPR line that would bring daytrippers from Toronto to the beach. There's plaques on the table tops mentioning this so I think the tables and chairs are originals! Not even the local municipal government has designated this as a historical site, although the Orillia Municipal Heritage Committee includes it in its Walking Tour of Historic Orillia pamphlet.

Muskoka Roastery Coffee

Coffee Roasters in Huntsville, Ontario

Rusty concerned with the passage of time

School bus shelter that's a school bus

School bus shelter in form of school bus, near Stayner, Ontario

Motts Mill Dam, Hutton Marsh, Elizabethtown-Kitley Township, Ontario

Motts Mill Dam, on Hutton Marsh between Lombardy and Toledo, Ontario, in Elizabethtown-Kitley municipality, administered by the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority .

 White Water Lily ( Nymphaea odorata )

Travel Photos 2013

Tay Shore Trail, near Highway 12, Ontario

Little Free Library

Book Exchange Cache on Highway 12 near Orillia

Bacon Eating Decision Flowchart

St. Columbkille Church, at the end of a long tunnel of green trees, outside of Orillia, Ontario

Spirit Catcher, by sculptor Ron Baird, Heritage Park, Barrie, Ontario. Originally built for Expo 1986 in Vancouver, BC.

Fire watch tower near Baker Lake and Algonquin Park. Note bird perched under it.