Garbage
by Mz. Penny
A few years ago, the Post Office took away their recycling bins. One of the reasons given from head office was the...
A Hunter Returns
You are, no doubt, reading this as a post seasonal activity, following another Christmas and New Year celebration. Our Avian friends, of course, don't...
Tiffanny the Tea Trickster
by Isabelle Nadeau
Once upon a time, there were two sisters living together in an old farmhouse. Both these sisters were vile, and the people...
Double your Dandelions
Fred Schueler, Fragile Inheritance Natural History
There are a number of native Dandelions in northern North America, but in Ontario, south of some islands in...
Not what I think of as a tourist draw
by Nadia Gray
As you drive into the entrances to Kemptville on any road, what kind of vista do you meet? Do the words attractive,...
Staff shortages causing concern
There is a sad irony to the fact that many businesses which managed to survive the lockdowns and restrictions of the past year and...
Baldwin’s Birds
This morning, a "murder" of the ubiquitous Crow family created quite a noisy, unusual, display as they gathered in the Fall leaves beneath one...
Tid Bit Musings
by Elva Patterson Rutters RSSW
Role-modelling is often both a conscious and sub-conscious action. If you are in doubt what you are role-modelling to young...
The Upsides of High Oil and Food Prices
by Ralph C. Martin
“Can you even squeeze $10 of gas into that thing?” He might have said ‘tin can’, instead of ‘thing.’ The wind...
OP-ED – Where Do the Children Play?
In response to the article submitted by Sara Godwin titled: 'Trampling 2SLGBTQIA+ Rights with a Bouncy Castle'
I had a lot of difficulties plowing my...