’TIS THE SEASON TO BE FALLY … CAVALCADE OF COLOUR AT ITS PEAK

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

MUSKOKA — ’Tis the season to enjoy all that is splendour at our doorsteps.

Muskoka is at the heart of one of the greatest ‘Cavalcades of Colour’ in decades.

Now that’s something to be thankful this Thanksgiving.

Across central Ontario roads are filled with tour buses headed for Algonquin Park to bear witness to one of Mother Nature’s most spectacular changes of clothes.

Joseph and his amazing technicolour dreamcoat is no comparison to the crimson tide washing across a cloudless blue sky or even when there are contrasting blacks and whites and greys acting as dramatic backdrops.

Tourists come for the colour that locals take for granted each fall. But even they have to admit 2022 is one of the best years anyone has seen.

From backyards to backwoods, ridges to mountain tops, lakes to rivers October is a wonder beyond compare that even the Group of Seven tried by really and truly found hard capture on canvas.

Valiantly as the Canadian artists tried, dipping brushes into palettes with all manner of hues, with one click smartphones have erased hours of painstaking mastery.

Streets and roads are crowded with wanderers seeking the wonders of this photosynthesis world.

A lakeside edged with tall pines fronting a multi-coloured forest is a breathless portrait of perfect pigmentation.

For many lucky enough to walk into that picture and envelope themselves under a canopy of colour is like stepping into a melting pot of Crayolas.

Hiking on a bed of maple leaves is like walking on coloured clouds.

This is Muskoka this time of year — and many, but not all, geographies from Collingwood to Haliburton, Sundridge down to Orillia. From Honey Harbour to Haliburton. Georgian Bay to Kawagama Lake.

Climbing the fire tower at Dorset is worth the $17 cost per car, or the $21 charge to stop in Algoquin Park to drink in the aqua of a coloured cup and saucer. Park hiking permits have been sold out for weeks. But parking lots over a nice vista just the same.

If you can’t get out on foot or car, you don’t have to look much further than your window to see some semblance of why this is another reason to give thanks for living in God’s country.

Enjoy the trip.

Tourists come for the colour that locals take for granted each fall. But even they have to admit 2022 is one of the best years anyone has seen.
Bethune House in Gravenhurst is the first stop on a weekend getaway to Muskoka followed by a trip to Algonquin Park.
A walk in the woods is like enveloping yourself in box of Crayola, your feet treading on coloured clouds.
This is what Canada is – a mosaic melting pot of maple leafs glistening in a weathered world.
From this to this …. Green is for the environment and brown is for what ages it down.