Time for a Summer Holiday

The Golden Plover and Ruddy Turnstone are on the beach.  Why aren't I?  It's mid-July already and I haven't planned my summer vacation.  Fewer people are planning vacations this year.  A rough job market often creates a fear that we might not be missed from the office and really aren't that  important (and so we're replaceable). But for some of us, it's just that we may have lost the ability to relax and get away from our daily routines.

Wasaga Beach

It's a cold Sunday morning and after making sure I remembered to turn the furnace back on (no wonder it was so cold last night!) I sought some feel good summer inspiration from this old postcard of Wasaga Beach. It's from the early 1960's when North America was at the height of its love affair with the car. There appears to be more cars than people on the beach (a long ago custom that has since been banned). Not entirely environmentally friendly, was it?