Pembroke, Ontario

Pembroke was the 1st city in Canada to have electric street lights and this is the old lighting plant, which is now a museum. It contains fixtures & other items dating back to the 19th century

Pembroke, Ontario

looking from Millenium Park & someone is sailing on a beautiful day - Quebec on the other side of the river

looking down the side of the park - the was a boardwalk all the way down and benches to sit on. In the distance on the little penninsula, you can see picnic tables that have a covering over them - there were several in the park.

on the right is a man fishing with waders on - next to him is a man, who just came up from being underwater. He istelling the fisherman that he just saw a big bass.

sorry not a clear picture of the sailboat with an isalnd in the background

this is the other side of the park, which has a beautiful playground for kids

Pembroke, Ontario, Canada

We travelled through miles of farm fields and woods to get here - the only city we passed through was Ottawa, the capital of Ontario. It was easy driving all the way. As we passed Ottawa. I notice a huge castle from the highway. I didn't know what it was and was afraid to stop as I didn't want to get stuck in dinnertime traffic as we did yesterday. I looked it up on the internet a & found out that it was the Fairmont Hotel.
From Ottawa on the highway was a one lane road with a passing lane every so often.
 We arrived in Pembroke, which is 7 miles off the highway, and surrounded by farmland. Driving in I thought that it would be a one horse town, but much to my surprise, it was quaint and quite beautiful. We checked into the hotel and took a ride down Main St. which reminded me of a town of the past. Many of the buildings had beautiful murals painted on them.
The Ottawa River divides the border of Onatrio and Quebec and Pembroke is situated on it. We went to a beautiful park on the water called Millenium Park. I have pictures of it and when you are looking at them the other side of the river is Quebec.

the entrance to Millenium Park on Pembroke, Ontario

home to Montreal

We had a beautiful drive through Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. I hate to say it but some of the leaves were beginning to turn especially in Vermont. This would have been a fantastic foliage ride.
We did have a long ride here as we didn't get in until 5:30pm and left at 10:30 this morning. We easily made it through Customs and drove through about 40 or more miles of corn fields until we came into the Montreal area. There was construction all over Montreal and we spent about 2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic for about 10 miles.
Our hotel had a restaurant in it so we had dinner here. We were very lucky as the last part was an exhausting ride. I didn't take any pictures but hope to tomorrow.
Gaye & Patsy

1st snowfall

This is the 1st significant snowfall that we have had this season. I wish I had had my camera earlier in the day as the snow was very sticky and wet. It draped over the trees and as we were traveling, it looked just like a winter wonderland. I took these a dusk so it doesn't depict the beauty of the day, but I think you get the general idea.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Margaret and Mack's visit

Here we see Margaret and Mack as they stop over to visit us on their way to Fort Lauderdale. Again I forgot to bring my camera when we went out for dinner that evening. We found another new place up here. Margaret, Mack and I got the lobster special - 3 lobsters with fries or cold slaw. Patsy got the prime rib. To say the least, I think that we got quite a feed. This was Margaret's first time cracking lobsters. I showed her how to do it and she readily caught on!

This following day we went out to view the sights in the area. This is down at our beach. As you can see, everything is put away for the winter.

Mack grew up in Quebec and vacationed in Maine. One of his haunts was Wells Beach as we see here in this picture.

Another place he vacatined at was Old Orchard Beach and here he is at the Pier. During his hayday, the Pier was the place to be - food, games of chance and dancing with big name bands and singers down on the very end of the Pier - see below.

We drove by the Brunswick Hotel, which I pointed out to him - he didn't remeber it. Once we got down on the beach, he pointed to an area where he used to stay - it was down by the Brunswick. Apparently it was more recognizable from the shore where all the activity was.

Again one of my favorite tourist places is Fort Wiiliams and here we see Portland Headlight, which was commissioned by Pres. George Washington. It is also the most photographed headlight in the world. We even have a replica in Lake Havasu.

This is a view at Portland Headlight showing Portland in the background. In fact the only high rise you can see on the pennisula is the one I used to live in before i moved up here to Standish.

The headlight was erected because the navigation in this area is very dangerous as seen by the shipwreck Christmas Eve, 1800's.

We had dinner at Dimillo's, which is on a boat in Casco Bay. Margaret, Mack and I Have their famous lobster clubs and Patsy had lazy man's lobster.

They left the following morning during the end of the snowstorm. We were lucky; in our area there was very little snow. In fact. our driveway was bare. Other areas in Maine and along the Eastern Seaboard got slammed.

Fall at our house

We now have our everything done at our house and this is a Fall picture. Below I took pictures of the area so that you can see the Fall colors.

This is my favorite - I love the reds.