pring begins tomorrow at 6:29am. Our weather yesterday was a fluffy snow fall, and with the ground soft, one could smell all the moisture. That made it quite cold, too. How does Accuweather.com predict daily weather into the beginning of May? It gives the sense of a predictable weather pattern, although we experience otherwise.
When I look out my office corner window, (not my corner office window) I can see the Niagara escarpment. It is one of thirteen UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves in Canada. The trail along it starts in Queenston. The cairn marking the trail's terminus is in a parking lot, about 160 metres (520 ft) from General Brock's Monument on the easterly side of the monument's park grounds. The trail concludes in Tobermory. It is 850 kms long, with 400 km of side trails.
The idea to create it came about in 1959, and the trail was set in motion in 1960, with regional clubs established along the length of the Trail. Each club was responsible for obtaining landowner approvals, organizing trail construction, and maintenance efforts within their region of the trail. The cairn at the northern terminus of the Bruce trail in Tobermory was unveiled in 1967 - Canada's Centennial Year. It is the oldest and longest marked hiking trail in Canada.
When Dezi and I go to Grimsby Beach, we walk one of the spur trails - a side trail from the escarpment to the Lake.
We in Canada have the distinction of having the longest hiking trail in the world - the Trans Canada Trail. It is 24,000 km. It is an astonishing length - the next longest trail in Italy is 5,954 kms long.
Today we say farewell to winter in pictures from yesterday's snowfall.
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