Places Before

Over 45 years ago a summer camp for children teamed with play and adventure beside a pond that is part of southern Ontario’s most important wetland.

On the far shore the most ambitious and driven of the senior boy’s would engineer great tree forts high in the pine trees.

The pond is mostly drained now and the reeds have turned golden brown. The water runs more clear than ever.

Beneath nearby trees a small Madonna of the Woods does . . . whatever it is these small statues are supposed to do.