We were out and about over the last couple of days and wandered out through the local farmland which is what this place is really about. The tourists are here but the real focus is still crops and farmers in this very fertile region. First is the mustard. Believe it or not, 80% of the world's mustard comes from Canada ... and the Dijon name has been bought by companies here and is not a French trademark anymore. Anyhow here's mustard ... thousands of acres of the stuff.

And this weekend the hay was cut and harvested, some of it in the old traditional way rather than the new rolled up version. It's been so wet and cool that this was the first opportunity to cut and bale the stuff so they were all madly working the fields the last couple of days.

Then we went over to a small tourist spot near here called Walters Falls. This is a small falls which was converted to a mill over a hundred years ago, but remains a pretty spot for picture taking.

OK, and the last for today is an "eat your heart out Texas" kind of pic. This is the Martin's back yard as we got ready to barbeque with the monster blue spruce on the side. I was present when this tree was about 2 feet tall and first planted and have watched it mature in spite of being moved at least four times over the last 20+ years ... I don't think it will move again, eh. They have had so much rain and it has remained so cool ... even today at 70 degrees we had another pretty good shower, that it it very lush and green here.