Home through Eganville, Douglas, Arnprior

We took advantage of the sunny beginning to the week.
Day 1 on Golden Lake
Day 2 on Golden Lake

This was our drive home Monday, Sept. 25th.
We took a drive through along highway 60, along through Renfrew,  to Douglas, hugging the Ottawa River. Through Eganville, with great big fields, lying golden in the sunshine.

Delightful, old log homes from back in the day. The hay hay been cut, I hope the farmers are happy. Many are beginning to create silage for winter.
 Through there, to Braeside, where the last train went through. Hubby has a picture of that! We ate lunch in Arnprior. We were home by 3 p.m., thankfully.



Lunch in Arnprior. I honked and scared a couple of customers. No one came, either. We just walked in. Lunch on the patio, in 33 degree heat! It was delightful.



A big bee decided to take a sip of my water. JB rescued it with the straw. It flew up, thanked him, and flew away happily.



Arnprior, a couple of hours after we left... How sad. Enjoy each day.
A woman was killed, backing out of her driveway around 5:30 p.m., after a man stole a truck and fled police.

News Sep 25, 2017

Fatal collision in downtown Arnprior

Day trip to Golden Lake & Barry's Bay #2

[Day trip to Golden Lake & Barry's Bay #1]

Eganville

We drove through Eganville, where they were preparing to welcome Melissa Bishop back after her Olympics. Isn't that exciting?!
They had a parade for her!
Melissa Bishop is a Canadian runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She competed in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, and won a silver medal at the 2015 World Athletics Championships. [Wikipedia]

#parade fir #melissabishop in #eganville ON pic.twitter.com/ozBP93BeeQ

— Jeff (@hdhntrjeff) September 10, 2016

Golden Lake

Our first stop was in Golden Lake, by this time it was lunch time! Out the restaurant window, several Monarch butterflies! While JB paid the bill, I dipped my toes into the lake. We considered moving here, at one point, but decided it was too far from our Ottawa family. Also, the shallow lake freezes over in winter, and it becomes a Nascar track for snow machines.

It's a large, shallow, open lake. The gull on the dock looked quite pleased surveying its territory.
The motel was quite at the end of its summer season, preparing to slow down.



Then it was on to Barry's Bay, Madawaska Valley! This store was quite quirky!



Home via Calabogie...where they have a motocross park. The resort was lovely, and we stopped for a drink.

 

Lots of traffic in Calabogie! We were worried about the truck, taking up two lanes. I lovely end-of-summer day!