While the Eastern Townships might sound like they are just outside Johannesburg, they are in fact located in the south eastern part of Quebec province. They are only an hour from Montreal and after all my hard gardening, Alan took me there last Monday afternoon.
We went to a town called Knowlton. The town and its surroundings are very pretty; close to a lake with trees everywhere. There is less of a french influence here and the impression is very much of a town in one of the northern American states; Vermont for example.
The weather was dull and wet (quite Irish) so not many photo ops arose. However, we did stop especially to take shots of this carved tree. (The tree was dead, needless to say).
I've a friend who carves similar faces into pencils (a tricky job, you'll agree); I wonder how he'd feel about taking on a project of this scale?
Anyway, Knowlton have a duck festival in a couple of weekends time so we might head back to see the leaves turning and get some better photos then. The festival, by the way, seems to revolve mostly around celebrating the eating of ducks, though they have squeezed a 'duck race' into the programme. I assume that, at least, is carried out with live ducks...
The last picture is of the stormy sky over Montreal as we drove back to town over the bridge.
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