Maple Lake Ontario

It was a Beautiful Day – September 2 2012 – Maple Lake Ontario PHOTOS #haliburtonhighlands #labourday

Ξ September 3rd, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Algonquin Township, beach, Canada, cottage country, family, fun activity, Haliburton Highlands, health/happiness, holiday(s), home and garden, Maple Lake Ontario, me, My dog, nature, Ontario, personal, Photography, Raven, stuff, summertime, Travel/Vacation |

Maple Lake Ontario – Sept 2 2012

There should be a Picasa photo album here with captions. If you cannot see it go to the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/110540833163122558330/MapleLakeOntarioSeptember22012?authuser=0&feat=directlink

Labour Day Weekend in the Haliburton Highlands – What’s Happening! Weekend Weather – Ontario PHOTOS #haliburtonhighlands

Ξ August 31st, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Algonquin Township, art/crafts, Canada, cottage country, entertainment, events, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, holiday(s), Maple Lake Ontario, My dog, Ontario, personal, Photography, Raven, summertime, Travel/Vacation, webcam |

View from the cottage window – Maple Lake, Ontario, Canada

In a matter of hours we’ll be departing for our final trip to Maple Lake Ontario this year. It is our third and we are both looking forward to it and a bit wistful that the time has flown by so fast that we must bid goodbye until next year. I took  the shot above with my smartphone and I must say it’s the only photo so far that I’ve been able to snap that is worthy of sharing! I did make it my wallpaper so I can show off tho’. Hee.

Have a super Labour Day weekend! If you are on Maple Lake, be sure to stop by and say hello–we are at  the bottom of the hill to the left, off of Frank’s Lane. Just look for the best view of the lake.

What’s Happening in the Haliburton Highlands This Weekend:

Haliburton August 30 2012 (PHOTO)

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Oh, I almost forgot–the weather this Saturday and Sunday looks fantastic! Check it out!

Haliburton Highlands weather September 1 thru September 6 2012

What’s Happening This Week in the Haliburton Highlands! August 9-15, 2012 – NEW Maple Lake and Bobcaygeon PHOTOS #holidays #haliburtonhighlands

Ξ August 9th, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Algonquin Township, Canada, community, community services, cottage country, Education, entertainment, events, family, Food and/or Drink, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, Maple Lake Artisans, Maple Lake Ontario, me, My dog, nature, Obi, Ontario, personal, Photography, summertime, sunrise, sunsets, Travel/Vacation |

Maple Lake – August 2012

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What’s Happening This Week in the Haliburton Highlands! August 9-15, 2012:

Click on the thumbnails and read all about the great times in store for and yours in the Haliburton Highlands!

SOURCE: Thanks to www.haliburtonholidays.com

Update! HALIBURTON HIGHLANDS – Our Holidays – What’s Happening THIS WEEK & This Month So Far – Maple Lake ONTARIO PHOTOS #haliburtonhighlands #algonquinhighlands

Ξ August 2nd, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Algonquin Township, art/crafts, beach, business, Canada, community, community services, cottage country, Education, entertainment, events, family, Food and/or Drink, fun activity, Haliburton, Haliburton Highlands, health/happiness, holiday(s), Maple Lake Ontario, Minden Hills Township, My dog, nature, Obi, Ontario, Photography, shopping, summertime, sunrise, sunsets, Travel/Vacation |

Doing laundry earlier tonight in anticipation of the run up to and the Canada Civic holiday on August 6. This is West Guilford between Green Lake and Pine Lake. This is 2 lakes from our lake, maybe 4-5 miles?

So we are here on Maple Lake and everything is going well.
We had a break in the drought with a decent thunderstorm–not long in duration but it has perked things up.
I’m glad no one has any fires though because you can see how tough the summer of 2012 drought has been on this part of the Algonquin Highlands of Ontario.

We (spouse & I) are hitting the major projects–the siding of the cottage (done! by hired guns–now lots of touching up and some minor repairs –fingers crossed–that spouse is doing). Also to-do: replacing most likely, the water pump–for a number of reasons including the one we are using is someone else’s spare (!) and it’s getting ever-more ‘hinky’, plus the building of the swim raft (I hope) as early into our just-under-2 weeks here as we can.

There are definitely some really cool events that I hope to be able to hit up in a few days. Meanwhile, get used to snaps of Maple Lake.
Today we saw the beginning of Festival of the August Moon on the Gull River in Minden–the hanging of the lanterns–I wanted to see the nighttime lighting/setting of them down the river but the aforementioned projects and making time both for a Kawartha Dairy stop and a really nice swim sort of ate up the rest of the time today.

Tried out the new telescope tonight and the full moon nearly blinded me. I’m stupid that way. Really great potential to see great constellations though–in maybe a week–and every other pretty night for the rest of the time I come up here.
Definite plans for the “Farmer’s Market” in Carnarvon and Haliburton Midnight Madness on Friday afternoon and evening, respectively.

The hilltop between Maple Lake and our cottage (lake view).

Some of  ‘What’s Coming Up in the Haliburton Highlands! August 2012′ (see link above photo for more):

After the JUMP – UPDATE August 2: What’s Happening This Week in the Haliburton Highlands! Aug. 2-8, 2012

My CONDO SUMMER GARDEN in Sweet HOME Chicagoland! (PHOTOS) #chicagoland #condo #garden

Ξ June 21st, 2012 | → 1 Comments | ∇ home, home and garden, me, My dog, nature, Obi, personal, Photography, summertime, United States |

Beautiful day today–clear–in the 80′s F, especially good too, because a task I had needed to do got cancelled–opening up some unstructured time for me–and the dogs.

Spouse’s garden is looking pretty rad. The Purple Smoke tree in particular is a favourite of mine.

In the backyard – Purple Smoke Tree – 6-21-12

‘Obi’ -6-2012 – Schaumburg
backyard

Hosta – 6.21.112

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Creeping upward… trellis

Raven and Obi – backyard 6.21.12

OK. That’s pretty much all in back right now–that’s thriving after this brutal weather, anyway. There’s much more in front but I don’t really hang out there. It’s an odd sunlight situation both in front and back because of the way this funny old condo building is built.

We (the condo assoc.–not me personally) fired our on-site groundskeeper and and are not buying much in the way of foliage so what spouse does–the scale, seeing  as we own only one condo here not all six units, for this building. He does a real lot. People thank him though, which is all the encouragement he needs, I think.

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