FTLComm - Tisdale - October 13, 2001

Out here two thousand miles from Toronto, the centre of the universe, it is sometimes hard to get a feeling for the perspective of things. It hasn't rained in ages, the sloughs have dried up, the crop this year was half of last year and the prices for the crop are what farmers were getting forty years ago. But we live in hope, we look forward to another year as the leaves are gathered, the sky darkens and the wind smells of snow. This morning this front yard display caught my eye, it has been there for some time but, alas I had just not seen it before. The water has been drained from the pond and the little waterfall isn't working but for a family and their neighbours it is their "little place". Something special something to focus upon and enjoy. Perhaps it is about hope or maybe even on fantasy, but it is a delight and captures the imagination and the need to see beyond the horizon. One of the goals of this web site is to take this environment and share it with you the visitor, for many of you who read and look at these pages may even have come from here or you may only be armchair travellers seeing the world through your computer screen. It doesn't matter, each day we try to capture some of the "here" so that you can experience it through your screen. In so many ways this web site and the stories it tells are like the front yard display, "our little place." Below is a QuickTime VR panorama made using that little JamCam mentioned earlier this week, now with a memory card in it sixty-seven pictures can be stored at a time. This 360º panorama was made on the South East Corner of town just above the little stream, the Doghide Creek that enters town from the South.