Lake Ontario | Mama Cormier

….thanks to Debbie Smyth from Travel With Intent for hosting OWS https://travelwithintent.com/2022/07/10/draft-one-word-sunday-ows/

Summer for me is the cottage. With preparing for the my solo art show, hanging the show, attending the gallery to greet people and now closing the show I have yet to get to my summer home. There have been other issues as well, such as not being able to get to the island because the the ferry broke down, was repaired and then broke down again. Even though the passenger ferry is running and a barge was provided I couldn’t bring myself to open the cottage on my own. This coming weekend, my daughter and daughter-in-law are able to help me. In the meantime I’ve enjoyed ‘Summer’ from the city.

As many of you know I live down by Lake Ontario and am blessed with a string of beautiful parks in my neighbourhood. Here is summer so far, this year, for me.

6-A5-E6-B74-9419-4911-8522-7-A569-E9-C9521 — *Watching and playing lawn bowling down the street*

6941097-C-4773-4-A2-A-B3-C7-ABBCA8-F2-D5-F3 — *Walking to the little beach at Rotary Peace Park*

567-A9-F67-B2-C3-44-F7-964-E-84-A1-F5-D4301-C — *Enjoying the flora along the lake shore on my walks*

2490165-C-6109-4-B75-9-CAC-24-DAF2-DE8921 — *View from the park at the bottom of my street*

…thanks to Sue W. and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2022/06/11/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-waste/

I don’t often take photos of waste but two years ago, at the beginning of COVID, my neighbour and I went out every day for a month and collected the waste that people left behind. We were appalled at the amount of trash we picked up every day. People started to notice and thanked us and many people picked up the cause. It seems that the amount of trash is somewhat less these days.

Much of the trash that we collected had washed up from the lake and we found some pretty interesting things along the shoreline, hidden under the rocks and landfill that lined the edges of our parks.