As many of you know, I have left the Township of Rideau Lakes to live in Nova Scotia. I have left one stunningly beautiful area to live in another area that will continue to nurture Molly and me and entice me to “shoot things”. So on this trek down to the coast my friend Nancy Simmons-Wright and I stopped by Rimouski to poke around a wee bit and to visit nearby Reford Gardens. Elsie Reford, née Meighen, was a philanthropist and founder of the Reford Gardens. She was born January 8 1872 in Perth, ON and died November 8 1967 in Montréal, QC). She was the niece of Lord Mount Stephen and a close friend of Lord Grey, and as such she belonged to the conservative and imperialist wing of Montréal’s large business bourgeoisie. mailto:http://www.
There seems to be a bridge then, from my home area to my new home. It feels good.
I first fell in love with Usnea in Thunder Bay. It is hauntingly beautiful, grows in clean air and is highly effective against many types of gram positive bacteria. Common examples include Staph (Staphylococcus simulans and S. aureus) and Strep (Streptococcus)
Service Berry
Rue Anemone and an old giant
Shield field Rodgersaria
View from the Reford summer home upstairs hall. That is a boat in the distance slipping behind the cedars.
Drive to the house
Inside the summer home was a beautifully touching exhibit War Flowers
Montrealer Elspeth Angus’s collection of meticulously preserved letters sat undisturbed in the drawer of a child’s dressing table, and then in conservation boxes, for generations: hundreds of hopeful dispatches from her grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel George Stephen Cantlie, sent from the epicentre of the First World War.
I have chosen to share one with you and for my friend Celia
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Cross in memory of the Empress of Ireland 1914 Sainte- Luce
