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| #2904 ""Cottage at the Tip of Long Point on Red Horse Lake" 4 X 6 and 1/4 profile (inches). Started 11:30 am Friday, September 13th, 2024 from very near N44.540953° W76.074176° |
This was the sixth and final work of the three-day International Plein Air Painters (IPAP) WORLDWIDE Paint Out. There was not much of an "internet" in the autumn of 2001 to facilitate the forming of the International Plein Air Painters Organization. This plein air painting group was simply started within "Yahoo Groups". Small gatherings of artists responded to the horrific tragedy that was 911 throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Italy and some islands in the Caribbean. In 2024 International Plein Air Painters celebrates its 23rd Anniversary. I am a Charter and Honours Signature member of IPAP joining immediately in October 2001 when approached by the founder and my friend Jacq Baldini.
This is the cottage on the south side of the bottleneck separating the large east and west basins of Red Horse Lake. As the name indicates, this piece of paradise is at the very tip of Long Point which divides the basins of Red Horse Lake.
Long Point like all ridges in the Frontenac Arch are aligned from the northeast to the southwest. These ridges are the remains of the ancient Laurentian Mountains.
The Laurentians Mountains are one of the oldest mountain ranges on earth. The range formed around one billion years ago during the Grenville orogeny, in which the Grenville Province formed, a subdivision of the Canadian Shield. During that time, Laurentia, the geologic core of the Canadian Shield, collided with other continents and formed Precambrian rocks which extend across the range.
The ice sheet was up to 2 kilometers thick over Red Horse Lake during the last ice age 24,500 years ago. Ice-free land appeared in southern Ontario as the glacier started to melt about 18,000 years ago. That was the beginning of the end of the last great ice age that covered Ontario. The meltwater would have spilled across the landscape finding low spots on the Laurentian Mountain range and spilling into the next valley. The beautiful lakes and ridges are the remaining tokens of that age.
Warmest regards and keep your paddle in the water,
