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The weekend of May 12th, both Mother's Day and my mother's birthday -- she would have been 80, if she were alive, was a special weekend. I started Saturday off early, before 6:00 am I was on my bike and off to Highland Park, a "suburb" of Atikokan. I passed the Atikokan River, with the mist rising from it into the cool early morning air. While I didn't find the lookout I was searching for, I did find a sleepy little hollow of highly individualized habitations. The slanting sunlight touching the tops of the hills made for lovely photographs.
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Later on in the day, Catherine Reilly and I drove out to the Steep Rock pits. The day had been overcast since about noon, threatening rain. However, by late afternoon, the gloom broke, and sun played hide and seek behind puffy clouds. We sat at the lookout, Catherine shared my awe of the landscape. She sketched and painted, I sketched and took photographs. The sun and shadow played against the distant red walls. |
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| On Sunday, Mother's Day, Ken and Jean Morrison visited from Thunder Bay to take me out to Mother's Day brunch at the White Otter Inn. Afterward we visited the Walleye Hatchery, and Little Falls. We spotted the violets on a lichen covered rock, near the top of Little Falls.
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