Oh Canada!

Today is Canada Day, here is a short history lesson for non-Canadians...

Canada Day is the National Day of Canada, the anniversary of the July 1st, 1867 enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act) which united the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and The Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) into a single country called Canada.  It is a big day over here, people celebrate by having BBQs, drinking beer and saying 'Eh?' A lot at the end of sentences.  Also by having big fireworks displays late at night and getting stuck in traffic on the way into Grand Bend.

We managed 2 of the above celebratory activities, we BBQ'd for dinner and drank a moderate amount of Canadian Beer.  Disappointingly I haven't heard anyone say 'eh!' all day, we didn't go into Grand Bend traffic and I'm ready for bed hours before the fireworks are due to start but 2 out of 5 is better than none.

I thought you might not have seen enough pictures of The Pinery recently so we went in search of Tulip Trees, Tanagers and Towees.  Tanagers and Towees are birds so obviously we made far too much noise to see any of them but you can't miss the Tulip Trees, they are huge! They have really deeply ridged bark and very neat flowers, you can see the bark on this rather poor attempt at an arty photo but the flowers are about 100 foot up so its a bit difficult to photograph them.

They also have funny shaped leaves that look like dinosaurs footprints.

Rose decided on an appropriate woodland walk outfit, I suggested a hoodie as it wasn't particularly warm so she hung a string of beads between her shoulders and said it was a sleeveless sweater.  The sparkly Tinkerbell socks with sandals really pulled together the whole look.

'Anyhoo' Happy Canada Day and this cool weather had better buck up pretty soon.