Long Point - rug hooking at the cottage.

My "hooking friends" get together at every opportunity, to rug hook and enjoy each others company. The cottage weekend has become a tradition that we have been able to manage on many June weekends since George and I bought the cottage, 16 years ago.

The week before a  turtle made her way across the property, looking for a place to lay eggs. I think she is a Painted Turtle.

Most years I see one, or her tracks. I wonder if it is the same one and if they habitually lay eggs in the same place every year. I wouldn't have thought that the cottage part of Long Point was a good choice.

I also strawberry picked

To be frozen and used in smoothies through the fall and winter.

On Front St near St Williams. The place that I usually pick didn't have a good enough crop for "U-pick" so I tried this place. The berries were not as abundant but were amazingly sweet (especially hot from the sun in the fields)

The cottonwood poplars have started seeding and it is like living in a snow globe as the "snow" swirls around, getting caught on the plants, drifting into piles and always managing to find its way into cups of coffee and glasses of wine.

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Rasta is mesmerized by it floating past the windows.

We hooked all weekend but had time for other activities too:

Sitting on the deck, we witnessed a wedding on the beach (actually a 10yr re-commitment ceremony)

Heron on one of our beach walks.

Beach walking tended to be an evening activity but my little camera can't pick up all the lovely colours of the sky and water.

We watched another turtle make her way across the property. This one with a smooth shell and

bright yellow under her chin. A Blandings Turtle. Internet research revealed that we have 8 turtle species in Ontario, 7 of them can be found at Long Point.

As usual we ate, drank, laughed and generally caught up on each others lives (work, families etc)

Heather was working on her Santas

and started on a piece that will have a Van Gogh style sky and a Lauren Harris style landscape. A "Heather Van Harris"

Peggy is enjoying the freedom of working on this piece after the colour planned, self disciplined hooking of her Fish Rug.

Lynn is working on a William Morris Sampler (She is no stranger to fine shading and did a lovely job on the rabbit)

I completed a number of small pieces to go up to Loops on the Beach, the store in Dwight.

The Van Gogh, "Wheat field and cypresses"

A little maple leaf coaster

and 3 little pine tree mats with different backgrounds.