As soon as I pulled in to the dock, [Janine] came down to ask if we wanted any bread. “I just put a few loaves in the oven. I could bring one over this afternoon.” “I’m sure Granny’d like that. And we’d be happy to have another each week, like always.” Things were starting to..
Dalton’s son, George junior, … led me straight inside. Alain Leduc was there, too. A twenty-five horsepower engine idled quietly in a tank near the workbench.… George and I looked on as Alain gingerly turned a screw to control the blend of gas and air. We could hear the engine revving up and down. Alain..
Market in the Village Saturday, 5 September 8 am to 1 pm. 111 Garrison Village Dr Niagara-On-The-Lake, ON, L0S 1J0 Come to find me at the Market! Buy a copy of “Providence Point’ while also enjoying an abundant farmer’s market! FREE parking close by, near Foodland and Shopper’s Drug Mart
Grandpa and Grandma “had decided it was not enough just to live their days at the Point. They would document them as well.” She and Robbie made observations every summer and Grandpa kept reports in his binder. “Record-worthy findings could be made in any season, though most frequently in the spring and early summer. Still,..
Rex shared his wedding plans with Rob, who would be in England by then… We clicked bottles. “I guess I won’t make it, but I’m sure it’ll be one hell of a party.” Rex’s expression clouded briefly. “Yeah, Violette’s already told me Hank has to be the best man. He and I have been together..
“This, my boy, is a good one.” I wound in my line and reached for the landing net. My uncle would handle the fish and the motor. Lifting the pike into the boat was up to me … The fish was very strong. It never jumped, but it made repeated runs… It was a long..
Rob saw Lili walking to the water’s edge from her parents’ home. Plainly, no one had been in when she called. She had moored a rowboat from Big Pine Lodge at the dock but, before she set out again, he invited her to climb up on the rocks for a consoling view over the Bay…
The Eaton’s van arrived as expected. By mid-morning, Hank and I were waiting at the turn-off from the main road. We ran alongside as the driver drove slowly to the Point. Then he and Grandpa slid my new boat in at its mooring behind the Robin. It was a flat-bottomed skiff, dark green with red..
Robbie and Hank teamed up to hunt blackbirds for their lunch one summer morning. With Robbie’s BB gun in hand, they went up over the rocks behind the Point. “Game was far from scarce. Thickets of tag alders and aspens were wedged in between the granite highlands, and each had its own flock of inhabitants…..
“A monochrome photograph of my grandmother turned up in a shoe box full of odds and ends. Grandpa’s neat bookkeeperly handwriting on the back said 1949. She looked out of the picture from the rock gardens between the cottage and the Bay. Grandpa knew those gardens were among the places closest to her heart. “One..
I’ll be at this year’s Niagara-on-the-Lake Book Expo: June 7, 11 am to 4 pm. Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Centre 14 Anderson Lane, Niagara-on-the-Lake L0S 1J0 Many, many authors will display their books in the spacious Community Centre. With lots of free parking and tons of literature to browse, you’ll find plenty to please you! And make..
Part way through [their] first summer, [Granny] had found herself out rowing on her own. She was a few dozen yards from shore when her oars became tangled in a mat of water lilies. One of Evariste Leduc’s children called over to her. ‘Lady, are you in trouble?’ My grandmother had immediately thrown up her..