Spring is just around the corner...almost

 Photos by Barry Wallace

Black Forest is ready for spring

My dear lady and I dropped into Black Forest Garden Centre yesterday to see how the preparations for spring were going.   Despite the ongoing cool temperatures, melting snow and ice has been orderly and manageable and the launch into the spring gardening season should be well organized.   Black Forest is still a strong family operation with three of the Khonen brothers (George, John and Karl) and their parents (Gerhard and Katharina) on hand to welcome King's gardeners.   Pictured below are brothers George (left) and John Khonen (right) about to take an afternoon tea break from their preparations for the new gardening season.   Warm air filled the greenhouses on this day making it hard to leave.   Black Forest is on the east side Keele Street, a few hundred metres north of the 17th Sideroad. 

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Less mobile than before...

As luck would have it, Charcot's Foot has caught up with me.   The bones in my right foot are separating.   It behooves (no pun intended) one to seek a early solution when possible, as the alternative is quite unpleasant.

The treatment is to put a cast on the afflicted foot and compress all the foot bones, over time, until the bones fuse into one big bone and walking is normal again...hopefully.   My getting around King Township and further afield will be slowed by a cast (see photo) that I may have to wear for up to a year.   This blogsite (Camera on King) and my other blogsite (Barry the Birder) may become less frequent, as my mobility is reduced.   My intention is to carry on blogging, however, and I hope you will continue to look me up now and then.   Have a great summer everyone.

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Photo by Linda Wallace

Lake Wilcox Park promenade now open

Pictured above are just two of dozens of wildlife art sculptures lining the promenade of the Town of Richmond Hill's new Lake Wilcox Park, on Bayview Avenue, between North and South Lake Wilcox Roads, in the community of Oak Ridges.   The park is about seven minutes east of King City.   There numerous art installations already in the park and they include images as simple and subtle as the oak leaf (below) engraved into a huge boulder between the lake's shore and the promenade.

Photos by Barry Wallace

This remarkable metal art installation is also a large sculpted storyboard featuring geographically-correct cutouts of Lake Wilcox, and nearby Bond Lake and Shadow Lake.   The names in a reverse-silhouette presentation recall early pioneers and settlers in the area.   The overall image is both stark and historically powerful.

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To keep the home fires burning...

''This world...ever was, and is, and shall be,

ever-living fire, in measures being kindled

and in measures going out".

Heraclitus  c. 540 - c. 480 B.C.

Photos by Barry Wallace

Surely, no other place in King Township (maybe all of York Region) has as much firewood laid in for next winter as John's Firewood in the Holland Marsh, north side of Hwy. 9 - just west of the King's 6th Concession (Weston Road).

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A view from a different angle...

Photo by Barry Wallace

New subdivision east of Kinghorn

Houses are popping up on the north side of the King Road, just east of Jane Street and the museum.   This view looks south-east from Jane Street, approximately 400 metres north of the King Road.   The East Humber River flows westward through the bottom land in the middle of the picture.

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Phil Chadwick paintings

Secret Cascade

The painting above, by former King Township resident and weatherman, Phil Chadwick, leaves me breathless and exhilarated at the same time, while the painting below impresses by colourfully bursting from what should be a stark black and white silhouette.   Go online to philtheforecaster.blogspot.ca for Phil's own take on the creation of these paintings.

Cedar Shadows

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Cold sunset ~ Weston Road ~ hamlet of Strange

 Photos by Barry Wallace

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