Back to Our Solitary Life

We spent two weeks in Western New York where we had great times with friends and family and I mostly forgot to take pictures. I didn’t take a picture at our lovely dinner on the Niagara River with Randy and Chris. I didn’t take a picture at the fun picnic with Dick and Sue and Sue and Gary (almost a tradition now). I didn’t take a picture at the chilly but very fun golf game with Jim and Goody, even though I reveled in the very picturesque Rolling Hills Golf Course.

I did get this picture when we took a hike with our friends Jane and Rob, on the right above. To the left of the sign are Jane’s sister, Anne, whom I hadn’t seen since she was probably a toddler, another of our classmates, Molly, Anne’s daughter Celeste and Anne’s husband Hyland. Bud was there, but hiding. The sign is for the Lytle Nature Preserve, where we hiked. This was a gift from Jane and Anne’s parents to the town of Lockport and is being managed by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Niagara County. It’s along the canal just north of Lockport and if you’re in the area you should check it out.

Thanks to Jeanie, I have this picture of her, me, Michelle, Erin and Joan walking in Four Mile Creek State Park after eating a great lunch with Bud. He cooked, he didn’t walk.

Erin had to leave but the rest of us walked over to the camp store for my first soft ice cream of the year.

Monday we moved on to Selkirk Provincial Park, our first stop in Ontario, where we’ll be spending the summer.

It’s a nice park on the north shore of Lake Erie.

So far we have a private spot.

As I was walking around with Matey enjoying the woods, I realized that unless family or friends come up to see us while we wander the near regions of Ontario, we will not see anyone we know for four months.

That’s a definite downside to our wandering life,

but it’s offset by the new places we find, like this lovely disc golf course outside of Caledonia, Ontario.

There are fun differences in regions. We don’t usually find packages of mushrooms like this.

That inspired this great stir fry!

So even though we are alone, we are enjoying the changing view from our windows…

and the new roads we travel.