The Birds and the Bees

August 4, 2025

Sara’s photos of Bow and Arrow contests from yesterday are so good. I’m not sure why I even bother to match wits with her.

However, I did manage to notice that nature continues to surround us. It being August, the bees in particular are desperately trying to get the last of the sugars available to them from flowering plants. Snap!

My very good old friend, Mr. Crocodile, looks so much older after having served gracefully for many years  in the cove just outside our cottage door. I hope he makes it a few more years. Me, too, for that matter!

The sun has been playing a few tricks on us the past couple of days. Actually, it is the Canadian government who allows those far northern wildfires to rage on and on with no effort to extinguish or contain them. The campers don’t connect those dots but do point to the glorious colors in the morning and evening skies.

Nathan and I offered two tours of Lake Tarleton in the Ferrari boat after dinner and we were treated to a bright orange orb which I assured our passengers was not the moon, but the sun.

The loons see us humans as friends and protectors, so they permit us many close-up encounters. We think there has been two successful chicks hatched this year. Both of our tours came across mother and baby and the boys in the boat for once were completely quiet. On the second go-round, mama bleated that magical loon call, the plaintive sounding song. Papa was fishing for dinner at the other end of Tarleton and surely got the message, whatever it was all about.

At the end of first session, a Kingswood mother captured a marvelous photo of mother and child loon and here it is for those who read the blog on the camp website.

After a frenzied two-day marathon, B&A games are off for the next three days. Very well thought out, the pause allows week three to be reasonably normal, with clinics, trips and other favorite activities to go on.

The only break in the routine is a 45 minute block in the clinic time to be set aside for team Songfest practice. There will be a performance on Thursday evening and the campers will have plenty of time to polish their acts. More on this later on.