The low concrete bridge, built by the Old Order Mennonite farmers, slithers across the Conestogo River at Hawkesville.

Memory is a funny thing. This piece of the side stream of the Conestogo River reminds me of a tributary of the Loire River in France. We stayed at a hotel there that was called the Domaine de la Tortiniere, the area of the twisting river or cork screw...my translation. This same twisting and turning occurs at Hawkesville, downstream from the low bridge.

The Conestogo River follows through parts of Mennonite country. This peaceful spring scene is west of St. Jacobs.

I often drive on the river road from Hawkesville towards St. Jacobs. This serene landscape, next to a Snyder farm, reminds me of the work of Homer Watson.

This stone house peeks out from behind a screen of trees along the Eramosa River in Eden Mills in this spring view.

During my time with the Grand Valley Conservation Foundation I had a good chance to poke along the waterways in this area. It was great fun and made me familiar with many small villages that I would never have visited.

This creek is just across the road from the St. Jacobs market.

Typical of small bits of landscape in the Muskoka region of Ontario, this piece of colours caught my eye. Perhaps it was the hues, some of which are almost pink, maybe the spidery skeleton of the fallen tree just off Limberlost Lodge Road, but there was some response in me. From the time that I was sixteen when I had painting lessons from M.F. Kousal, I have felt that I should paint some of the wild country in the Canadian Shield. I have never made a concerted effort to pursue that feeling. Perhaps laziness on my part has kept me from making the effort.

This piece was inspired by a painting that I saw by Aldro Hibbard, a New England painter. The location is imaginary.

This dam is on the North Saugeen River in Grey County, Ontario on Highway #6. This old fashioned style of water control is being replaced with modern dams that have no visual appeal for me.