Northumberland County. Sun and brisk air, winding roads that climb and swoop, green and pleasant farms and woodlands turning to fall colour. What a way to spend a day. And yesterday I did, in the company of a woman who knows her township and her history. A woman of Scots heritage, who delighted me with tales of the local folk, and sightings of well-crafted stone houses of the settlement in Brighton and next-door Seymour townships.
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| Fogorig mill |
I plan to return soon - history is everywhere in the Northumberland hills. People with deep roots in the old country transplanted them here, made buildings to last, and history to tell. A good place to look back, and see forward.
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you sow." Robert Louis Stevenson.
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| Menie |
I was in Northumberland Co. 2 days ago.....from Cobourg up to Hastings. The latter was a nice little town....wish I had spent some time there (we breezed through it). At one point we stopped to gas up, and I was shocked (for real !) by the silence. There wasn't a sound for 10 seconds or more. It was disturbing !
ReplyDeleteBut disturbing in a very nice way, right?
ReplyDeleteI love the twin Queen Anne's in Hastings.
I was talking about Hastings with the lady I travelled around with yesterday. She noticed the river was really low south of Campbellford, and announced - "they'll have to take another log out of the dam in Hastings."