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Lemonville and 5 other Ontario Hamlets: April 2020

I have often wondered what some of the little dots on my road map just north of Toronto look like. On this day, I found out:

LEMONVILLE

United Church and Cemetery

BETHESDA

former Methodist Church

RINGWOOD

What is left of the former Ringwood is mostly abandoned.

I wish!

ALMIRA

VICTORIA SQUARE

former Presbyterian Church now Chinese Baptist
Chinese Baptist Church

and right across the street:

Buddhist temple

DICKSON HILL

Former schoolhouse
United Church

Some nearby botany:

Bitter Dock (Rumex obtusifolius)
Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Watercress (Nasturtium officinale)
Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
Larch (Larix decidua)
Lichen
Lichen
Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris)
Willow (Salix)
Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophllum virginianum)
Trout-lily (Erythronium americanum)
Ash-leaved Spirea (Sorbaria sorbifiolia)
Scilla
Horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Choke Cherry (Prunus virginiana)

Nearby sights:

Cottontail
Cottontail

Birds I was able to photograph:

Killdeer
Killdeer
Killdeer
Chickens
Red-winged Blackbird (male)
Common Raven with egg
Canada Goose
Canada Goose on nest

NATURE POETRY

In the springtime: April violets glow
In wayside nooks, close clustering into groups,
Like shy elves hiding from traveller’s eye.             – Thomas Buchanan Read (1822–72)

Miles Hearn

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