After finishing
#2487 "March Morning Jim Day Rapids", I simply went and got another panel and stood looking toward the north at the edge of the cattails. The provincially significant wetland is certainly important and is just full of life.
The geese staked their chunk of ice. The otter came by and inspected my work before diving under the ice and coming up again deeper within the wetland. I look after that important piece of geography. I provide all kinds of nesting opportunities and habitat. Everyone needs a place to live. Surround yourself with nature and please be stewards for the environment.
The Singleton Sanctuary has a long history.
Here is an image from around 1922. Some campers were on the spot where our home is now - it may be the nicest spot along the entire waterway. They were probably tenting under the huge shagbark hickory that shades our home. The photographer entered this photo in a contest and won first prize. It was made into a postcard entitled "Noon on the Rideau", which was sold in the Rideau Lakes area. He returned and gave a copy to Charlie Tye - the same one that I saw in John Tye's home in Lyndhurst. Although the waterway does link into the Rideau, this view is of the eastern basin of Singleton Lake and the provincially significant wetland.
Charlie Tye (at right) and his sons Ford (left) and Fred (Fred was John Tye's father, born in 1910) after working hard in the morning, went at noon to water the horses at Jim Day Rapids. John Tye sold us the land for our Singleton Sanctuary. I was painting just a few feet from where Charlie was holding his horse.
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