Parkinson Canada SuperWalk

Sunnidale Park was the location of Barrie’s, 2025, SuperWalk to raise funds to help find a cure for Parkinson’s Disease.

The event raised over $33,000 to help ensure that a full and active life is possible for the 110,000 plus Canadians living with this disease.

Starting at the Dorian Parker Centre, approximately 100 participants walked the Middle Loop Trail in Sunnidale Park.

My first walk-a-thon since high school will hopefully become a yearly event.

Accidental Gardens

The colours of summer’s end…….

Apathy

Appreciation

Passion

Awareness

Thankfulness

Healing

Yahweh

APATHY…..KICK IT OUT!!!!!

Ice Cream

Ice cream 
Melting 
Sweetness
Running down 
Into a puddle 
On the ground. 

Little ants
Scurry
Round and round
Hoping for more
Ice cream 
To find its way
DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Blue Book

I'm looking at a blue book 
Laying on a shelf. 
It's staring back at me,
Yelling about itself. 

Pick me up, it says. 
Open the cover and turn the page.
It holds the information 
That you are afraid to crave.

You need to study me
To read my every word.
You will feel so much better 
After every word is heard.

But I only stare
As tears roll down my face.
I hate its very existence, 
I want it to disappear without a trace.

Wiidookdaadiwin Lookout

Located in Springwater Township, the Wiidookdaadiwin Lookout looks over the Minesing Wetlands, historic Fort Willow, and from Collingwood to Mount St. Louis, Moonstone.

Wiidookdaadiwin is from the Ojibway language and means “working together, and helping one another.”

A walk easy enough for a couple of two year olds


You can watch as
a train goes by.
You can watch as 
an eagle flies across the sky.

A member of the First Nations and an Explorer

This bronze statue depicts an explorer and a member of First Nations, complete with an Eastern Ojibway birchbark canoe.

The icon sculpture recognizes the First Nations, explorers, settlers, and military that traversed the area between Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario.

The Humble Donkey

Calm, patient, steady.
When Mary needed a ride
the donkey
was ready.

They protect herds 
from wolves and coyotes. 
Their hee haw, 
is actually quite throaty.

They are stronger than horses,
their strength and stamina 
can, of course,
be a contending force.

Highly intelligent 
their capability of learning, 
often leaves other animals
yearning.

For their smile,
that can be seen for a mile.

So the next time
you want to use the word 
Donkey, as an insult 
take yourself to task
And don't be an A....