| Here is our first look at Mima Mounds. "Their
origin is unknown and some of the explanations include frost heave effects,
odd remnants of receding glaciers, buffalo wallows, anthills, shell middens,
even gravel fish nests from prehistoric lakes! There's even a local rumor
that they were made by prehistoric gophers :)) The 445-acre Mima Mounds
Natural Area is the best place to see more than 4,000 of these geological
oddities." ~ from The Washington Almanac Further information can be found here. |
 Mima Mounds by Paul Kane, April, 1847. "Paul Kane was born in Ireland but came to York (Toronto) as a boy. He studied painting at Upper Canada College and after working in Detroit, Michigan and Mobile, Alabama he went to Europe for two years to study his art. |
Having developed an interest in western
Indians, Kane arranged to visit their territories, leaving Toronto in
May 1846. He went as far west as Fort Vancouver on the Columbia and over
to Victoria and returned in October 1848.
His field sketches and watercolours are an important
record of a period before photography. Returning to Toronto, he spent
six year making a series of 100 large oil paintings from his work." |
Tim takes a breather during our hike.
We walked more than a mile through the area.