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Remember Boblo Island? When I was a kid it was a short ferry ride from Windsor to the amusement park. We went here on class field trips and it was a summer job for many of us. The rides have gone the way of the dodo and the place has gone through […]

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Kites are great for beaches. No high rises or trees to watch for (as long as the wind is offshore). The presence of the clouds in this picture give an idea of just how high this kite got up — which looks to me like pretty high. Makes me think I’ll pack […]

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In the early summer each year, Windsor and Essex County gets flooded with these little creatures. They are known by many names including Mayflies, Junebugs, fishflies, shadflies — and gross. I’ve never been really bothered by them — when I was a kid the entire house would be covered by them. They’d […]

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It was a weekend of racing. Yesterday Blog Windsor showed you the lawn mower racing out in Essex and today it’s the Dragon Boats for the Cure dragon boat races that were held on the Detroit River Saturday July 14th and 15th.

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Here’s something a little bit different. There were lawn mower races in Essex this past weekend — I’ve never heard of it before but the pictures tell the story. For the full schedule of the rest of the season of lawn mower racing check the official Lawn Tractor Racing website.

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This week’s first post sends us back to the riverfront. Windsor is home to a Sculpture Garden along its waterfront trail. Earlier this year the flying saucer disappeared. Mita captured its return and you can see it here shining silver again. I can’t help wondering how many light years it traveled […]

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