| QUOTE (flora @ 06-Dec-2008, 01:51 PM) | Camac this is beautiful. I have seen the mountains with the quiet snow falling. I have found were a beaver has felled trees but I cannot find the beaver or the dam. I have never ice skated or seen a lake or river frozen. Do people not gather anymore at a frozen lake to skate? Is it more the indoor arena type now? And if I may, why would you not see this again?
Flora |
Flora;
What my poems describes is mainly rural Canada. When you live in urban sprawl it kind of hard to see these scenes. As I don't own a car anymore its hard to get out of town without asking someone to take you. People in small towns still do all the things I wrote about and if you live in Ottawa (our Capital) there is the Rideau Canal the worlds longest skating rink. LOA is also fortunate that she lives in rural Quebec and the river near her town freezes over so people can go skating as it was meant to be. There is also the fact that I can't skate anymore as my legs won't take the strain. I miss it. I'll tell you a story of when I was a kid in New Toronto a small suburb west of Toronto. We lived across the street from Gilbeys Gin, Distillery and every winter the night maintenance man would flood the area just in side the back gate and make a rink for all the kids in the neighbourghood. We loved it and had a ball but the mothers didn't like it cause they couldn't get us to go home for supper or to go to bed as we were playing hockey all the time. After a few years someome complained to the company and the rink was closed down and the gate locked. While it was there though we were the luckiest kids in town. Believe it or not also the healthiest cause we got fewer colds that most other kids. I'm a small town kid at heart and when I got out of the Army we lived in a small town 60 miles north of Toronto, Orangeville. It was great and my youngest was born there. Alas it was just to expensive even in those day traveling to Toronto to work so we moved back down to the suburbs.
Camac
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