Thursday, September 20, 2007

Ontario Countryside





Friday was sleep-in and laundry day for Clara and me, while Terry went off to Flint to the Alfred Sloan Museum (he of GM fame) and Vicky read and sewed.

On Saturday we crossed the bridge into Ontario and set off toward Turkey Point Provincial Park. The landscape in Ontario is quite varied and charming (for the most part), mixing small towns with medium size farms, but interspersed with some factories and industrial areas. We passed the Ford Motor Co assembly plant, a couple of steel mills and an oil refinery. Perhaps the highlight, for this Unholy Roller at least, was the quaint little village we passed through – named Messiah's Corners (perhaps that's where He'll land on the Second Coming!) We tried very hard to traverse every tiny little back road in southern Ontario. Along the way we saw several fields of plants with large leaves which we all guessed were tobacco, but we couldn't believe that they could raise tobacco up here. We did also see farms with clusters of little, tall sheds with a sort of chute on one end which Terry theorized were tobacco drying sheds. Unfortunately neither he nor I got a picture of the sheds, but the theories were confirmed in conversations with some folks the next day at the stop described next.

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