McCrae Memories

This is a mid afternoon view of the creek that leads into McCrae Lake. This view is looking southward with the onshore lake breeze shaping the cumulus clouds. There is only a breeze getting to the ground through the channel that leads to the west and McCrae Lake. This explains the ribbon of sky reflection in the otherwise mirror-like reflection of the scene in front of me. My goal was to have fun with the colours and the reflections.

This is one of my favourite places even though it is so close the Highway 400 extension. When I started to canoe the area in the mid 1980's hardly anyone knew or canoed the area. I was typically all by myself. That has changed a lot over the years but there are still a lot of good memories from the area - lying on the granite ridges watching the stars and satellites and talking about UFO's and close encounters of the third kind while consuming snake bite medicine. I did see one Missassauga rattler at McCrae but it was more afraid of me than I was of it. .

Oils on dark burnt sienna oil tinted foundation on commercial canvas - 18 X 24 (inches)