Last Saturday was the Lilac Festival in Franktown, a small community 40 minutes away - known for its many beautiful lilac bushes.
On Sunday, the day after the festival, we decided to drive over to check them out...
Unfortunately, most were past their prime, so it wasn't as beautiful as I remember...
But we did see a group of stone fence builders at work - repairing a historic church fence that had partly crumbled when the roots of a large tree grew into it. The tree has since been removed... Now "dry stone" fence builders (in training) were restoring parts of the old church fence.
But first they had to take apart the section they wanted to repair, laying the stones in rows in a particular order - with space to walk between the rows.
We were able to go inside the historic old church.
As we looked around , Terry noticed a framed painting of the church...
It had been painted by an old friend of Terry's from Montreal, Peter Bresnen. They had shared an apartment one year when Terry was a student at McGill.
Terry was thrilled to see it!
All in all, an interesting day!
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