I must remember to take my camera with me at all times.
Yesterday we were in St. Mary’s looking for a place to eat dinner and discovered so many photo opportunities. From
an elegant century-old restored bridge, we watched a pair of swans who drifted
down the Thames River and now and then contorting their necks to search out
something under their plumage or pecking affectionately
at each other — could have been photo potential. Steps away was the imposing limestone library — a Carnegie library to boot
(Parkhill, take note). The massive town hall anchors that block, and I could
have snapped at least part of its impressive façade. Then there was a restored castle-like structure a couple of blocks away
which looked like a playhouse but which a couple of patrons of the Laundromat across the street said was the old “opree house.” Could have snapped their weathered faces too!
Leaving architectural photo ops for other such mundane shots, behold a calico cat draped sound
asleep over a ‘cat hotel’ in the window of a store catering to “Pets and
Animals.” We wondered which category the cat fell into. The dressmaker’s shop next door featured red
clothes for Canada Day, and the book store honoured local quilting and, for
some reason, an aqua-coloured cruiser bicycle. Close by, a plaque noted Timothy
Eaton’s lesser-known brother, whose name escapes me, but who, along with Timothy,
opened a dry goods store on the main street. He seems to have stayed behind
while his better-known sibling moved on to fame and fortune in Toronto. While the handsome premises are
still standing, like Timothy’s grander operation, they alas no longer house
the original enterprise.
Anyhow, when I got home and was faced with the task of
producing baked goods for the annual, village-wide, July 1 garage sale on Saturday,
I decided to digitalize my efforts. Not as memorable subjects as the St. Mary’s photo
ops, but just as tasty as the desserts at the Black Angus where we had dinner:
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| Very sticky - also why do they put the recipe inside the box? |
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| 84 chocolate chip cookies and an uncounted number of RK squares |
In making the Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Squares, I also learned something about Snap, Crackle and Pop. They have personalities — something the way the Spice Girls did, but more complicated. And if you apply Myers-Briggs Typology, you have an even fuller relationship with and understanding of your morning breakfast cereal, as you eat it — or them. Snap is likely a ESTJ; Crackle seems to be more of an INFJ; and Pop must be an ESFP.
Just look at the photo and you decide:
And from now on, I will remember my camera!
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