HUMAN CHRONICLES 7 Our annual fall colour drive always touches Bon Echo Provincial Park. The two and a half hour drive from our Our first fall colour drive pilgrimage happened during the weekend of Thanksgiving in 2019 shortly after we watched the movie, ‘At Eternity’s Gate’, painting the last days of Vincent Van Gogh. Madhav Kochunni continued ... house was further stretched in my (altered) map of driving through scenic country roads, pottering around antique shops, appreciating the depth of colours by stopping on every whim and fancy, and punctuated by hunger and washroom breaks. Some of the highlights revolved around a Buddhist temple [Orgyan Osal Cho Dzong] in the middle of nowhere, drinking moonshine with off-roaders on ATVs by an abandoned mine, staying at an AirBnB and meeting a restaurant owner from India in Madoc, trekking up 100 metres up Mazinaw Rock, knee-knocking walk on another two hour trail, fighting the cold winds on the shores of Bon Echo, and making it all worthwhile at the marvel of nature’s masterful broad brush strokes. Our first pilgrimage happened during the weekend of Thanksgiving in 2019 and shortly after we watched ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ painting the last days of Vincent Van Gogh. I had a brief glimpse of the light Van Gogh was trying to capture in all his paintings. When I stood in the middle of the forest and looked up I saw the sun shining through the golden and red maple leaves. The celestial dance of nature before the shimmering leaves gracefully floated down to the forest floor, be one with the earth, and sprout again with a spring in April next year.
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