Our Annual Autumnal Pilgrimage

This silly, sentimental ole fella thanks you for your comments yesterday. Now, onto today’s post we go.

On Friday we took our annual fall excursion into the Lanark Highlands: destination Wheelers Sugar Camp, near McDonalds Corners. As you know, we make semi annual treks: one in spring and one in autumn.

We are still just in September, but the autumnal change seems early this year, so off we went. Along the way, the colours often seemed near peak, and sometimes the light was near peak too. At other times,  however, the sky clouded over. In any case, we thoroughly enjoyed our 45 minute drive, but we made no picture stops along the way.

Oddly enough, the sugar bush was not at peak colour. However, we've seen it in top form many times, and it also doesn't matter too much at the camp since the sugar maples turn yellow and not the oranges and reds that are to die for.

We had reservations for 11, and that is when we arrived, so we went right in. They had a table reserved for us, but we needn't have phoned ahead. I think the crunch will begin this weekend and carry on over the next two weeks, which is one reason why we travelled when we did. Once seated, I did what I always do and took a Sue pic followed by an inside pic, and here they are.

As we have done before, we wandered the compound afterward and took a few pics, pretty well the same pics as always. We can see some orange leaves around the fringes near the buildings, but inside the bush the maples are yellow or will be soon.

A blogger recently asked about my camera. All of my recent photography is via my phone. My Canon is gathering dust. The phone is so convenient, and between it and my software, I think I am getting decent results for the most part.

The Original Sugar Shack of days gone by.

Tim Wheelers Blacksmith Shop

Sue waiting for me to be done

On the long driveway to leave the property, I stopped to grab a couple more photos where we can see some more orange colour.

Those boulders in the foreground are erratics: boulders deposited by the glaciers.
They are strewn about erratically and do not belong to the local geology.
Some are much bigger that these.

Caught in the act

I always have it in mind to take the backcountry way home to look for more photo ops, and we have done that in the past. Nowadays, when it comes to it, I always and up making the decision to drive directly home and to be content with enjoying the passing views one more time.