The King City Triangle

HOGAN'S INN & HUNT PUB

PAPER CRANE SUSHI BAR & BISTRO

LOCALE RESTAURANT & BAR

Photos by Barry Wallace

Forget about the Bermuda Triangle.   Instead, sail into the King City Triangle to explore an epicurean adventure that will satisfy many tastes.   Hogans, Paper Crane and Locale are all open now, within a croissant-toss of each other.   I have tasted the food from all three kitchens and now have little reason to drive out of town searching for other fare.   This is a most appreciated addition  to the culinary scene in our village.   Go ahead.   Indulge yourself.    This is a new day at the four corners in King City.

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Barry Wallace       

One-horse open sleighs

Herb Ross and Charlie Ross

 Photo courtesy of Betty Dew

Len Glass ~ Ernest Glass ~ Margaret (Glass) McDugald

Glass Family Photo Collection

These photos of one-horse open sleighs were taken in the early 1900s in King Township.   Use of horses and sleighs began to disappear after the end of WWI and especially so after the end of WW2. The Ross and Glass families were long-time residents of King Township and some of their descendants live in King Township to this day.   Being related to the Glass family, I know for a fact that a number of the Glass family members made the switch to snowmobiles quite some time ago.
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Barry Wallace

Snowy, still and silent

    Photo by Barry Wallace           

                  . . . Kettleby Cemetery

Outdoor flowering vine starting to bud

Photo by Barry Wallace

I took this picture, in the garden, a few hours before  the first day of winter 2012/2013 began.   I have forgotten the name of this plant but it is a beautiful blooming vine that lasts all summer once it gets rolling.   The problem is it should not  bloom until next spring, but as you can see it is budding now.   The budding process will halt of course when temperatures drop to normal levels.   In the meantime, it's almost Christmas and one is left thinking about whether this upcoming winter might be like last winter: 'the winter that wasn't' or 'the winter of little snow'.   I am of an age that allows me to say I wouldn't miss the snow if it didn't arrive.   My five grandchildren wouldn't agree with me at all, of course.   Is it possible, I wonder, to have  back-to-back winters-that-never-were?   Oh, the times they are a changing.

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Barry Wallace      

Cold Creek bog-walk ~ mid-December

Photos by Barry Wallace

It's been a while since I photographed scenes along the Cold Creek Bog boardwalk on the 11th Concession of King, so I thought, seeing how it's almost Christmas, I would take some shots even though the scenes are not white or snowy.   Above is a shot of the the north end of the boardwalk down in the bog and a few hundred metres south of the visitors centre.

Abrupt bend in the boardwalk 

Pileated Woodpecker visited this cedar

Hikers' lay-bys

Bog springs

Bog-walkers

Bog pond

Boardwalk's southern terminus

Nature's woodworking

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Barry Wallace

Christmas Amaryllis

Photo by Barry Wallace

One of my wife's personal traditions around this time of year is to have at least one potted Amaryllis blooming and brightening up the house.   She is particularly fond of this pink beauty.   I have to admit it is very special looking, but then I've never seen an Amaryllis I didn't like.

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Barry Wallace

Stooked Pampas Grass

Barry Wallace Photo

Black Forest Garden Centre  ~  Keele Street

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Barry Wallace