Today was a driving day. The weather was great, if windy and the drive was lovely in a quiet way. We drove through Algonquin Provincial Park, and it was nice with a lot of low hills and crags. Thousands of lakes large and small with slow meandering streams. Multiple bogs of every sort, spruce, peat, reed, general bog -- pretty much whatever sort of bog you might want can be found. Some areas of good fall color.
Other than scenery the day's high point was Sudbury, home of three of the worlds second biggest chimneys. Except one of the three is kinda short and fat. All of them are still putting out smoke from whatever kind of factory is under them.
More random observations: dw thought I was overly snide concerning Canadian artists. She's probably right.
Ontario v.s. Quebec moose and deer warning signs. Quebec clearly is the winner. Ontario has a cheery bounding deer and an agressive striding moose, But Quebec actually shows a car hitting a deer -- with an orangey spikey cartoon crash sign and the car is tilted, nearly out of control from the crash. Another sign shows the car hitting a moose. It has the same crash symbol, and the car is really tilted, clearly careening out of control. They're great. Quebec also has a "slow for children" sign that shows a dead kid on the pavement. Perhaps effective but a bit morbid. DA
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