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Calling All Fire Flies

May 28, 2023May 20, 2023 Cottage Country 32 Viewsabdomen, Author & Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, award-winning outdoor education centre and summer camp, bedroom, beetle, blue, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Calling All Fire Flies, Canada, catch, CCC Publications, chemicals, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, create, dark, dashes, descends, dive bombing, dots, enzyme, evenings, family, females, Fenelon Falls, fireflies, firefly, flash, flashes, flashlight, flies, flying, garden, gentle, grass, Haliburton, herbicides, home, hot, humid, insect, Jacob Rodenburg, jar, July, June, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lakefield, lawn, Lifestyle Magazine, light, lightening bugs, Lindsay, luciferase, luciferin, magic, males, morning, Morse code, nature, night light, Ontario, organ, pesticides, Peterborough, plastic ice cream, pulses, shrubbery, shrubs, signal, starlight, summer, tall grass, Things to do, tiny bursts, tissue paper, tone, unique, vegetation, water, wristwatch, yard, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Ah, the gentle flash of a firefly. Tiny bursts of starlight punctuate the dark like the dots and dashes from

A Brush with Nature

April 2, 2023April 1, 2023 Cottage Country 154 ViewsActivities, award-winning outdoor education centre and summer camp, berry, berry ink, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Buckthorn, Canada, CCC Publications, clove, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, curves, Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, family, Fenelon Falls, field, flowers, Forest, fun, glass, Haliburton, home, ink, Jacob Rodenburg, jar, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lakefield, leaves, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, lines, mordant, mortar and pestle, nature, nuts, Ontario, outdoor, paint brushes, paper, plant, plants, raspberries, roots, salt, salt and vinegar, simmer, strawberries and blackberries, summer, summer camp, teaspoon, Things to do, vinegar, water, watercolour, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Nature is full of complex curves, shapes and lines. Even the tiniest leaf has sweeping edges, an intricate veining pattern

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What’s Needling You?

February 13, 2023March 9, 2023 Cottage Country 159 Viewsaward-winning, Balsam Fir, biologists, Black Spruce, Blasam Fir, Canada, CCC Publications, Cedars, characteristics, citrus, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cones, Conifers, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, evergreen, Executive Director, Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, flat, fungal, green, hemlock, home, insect, Jack Pine, Jacob Rodenburg, juni, Juniper, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, Memories, nature, needles, Ontario, outdoor education centre, park, Peterborough, Pine, Red Pine, scale, smell, spiral, spruce, summer, summer camp, Tamaracks, terpenes, Things to do, trees, water, What's Needling You, white, White Cedar, white pine, White Spruce, yard, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Ah the iconic Evergreen! To most of us, one Evergreen tree looks very much like another. But a more careful

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Welcome to the Winter Issue

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Cottage Country 100 ViewsBirchview Design, Cottage Country, Craig Nicholson, Dean James, Diana Rose, Haliburton Highlands, Jacob Rodenburg, Jacquelyn Toupin, PKHBA, Royal Fair Rodeo

The new year blew in on the wings of a Christmas storm, and hopefully that is an indication that the new

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The Beauty of Frozen Light

November 16, 2022November 14, 2022 Cottage Country 224 Viewsaward-winning, award-winning outdoor education centre and summer camp, balloons, beauty, Bobcaygeon, bowl, Buckhorn, Camp Kawartha, Canada, Christmas, Christmas Tree, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, container, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, craft, create, darkness, decoration, dogwood, dye, evergreens, Executive Director, Fenelon Falls, fir, freezer, frozen mandala, globe, Haliburton, hanger, hemlock, hole, holly, home, ice lanterns, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, kitchen knife, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, light, Lindsay, mandalas, material, Ontario, peel, Peterborough, rowan tree berries, sad, sink, solid, solstice, spruce, summer, tea light candles, The Beauty of Frozen Light, Things to do, tree, Tupperware, walkway, water, winter, winter green, winter plants, winter solstice, Your Lifestyle Magazine

Ah the darkness of winter. It can feel a bit sad. But there is beauty in light. And take heart,

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Welcome to the Holiday Issue

November 3, 2022 Cottage Country 168 ViewsBirchview Design, blanket, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, calendar, Canada, CCC Publications, children, Christmas, cold, colours, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, cover, cozy, Craig Nicholson, dreams, drink, excitement, family, Fenelon Falls, Festival of Trees, fire, fish, fishing, footwear, friends, gift guide, Haliburton, happy, healthy, holiday, Holiday Issue, holidays, home, hot cocoa, icy, Jacob Rodenburg, Jaquelyn Toupin, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawartha Settlers’ Village, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lake, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, locally, magic, Mark's, Memories, Mike Williams, new year, Ontario, Peterborough, recipe, seasonal, shop local, skating, snow, snowmobiles, speciality, sponsoring, swimming, temperatures, tobogganing, toboggans, trails, warm, weekend at the cottage, Welcome, winter, work wear, Your Lifestyle Magazine

The temperatures have dropped, and the brisk winds of winter are at your doorstep. Seasonal favourites have packed up and

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Basement Windows

September 30, 2022September 13, 2022 Cottage Country 280 Viewsaward-winning outdoor education centre and summer camp, Basement Windows, Book of Nature Connection - 70 Sensory Activities for all Ages, bug jar, Canada, CCC Publications, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, critter, dragon, earthworms, education centre, Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, Forest, glass jar, insect, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Lifestyle Magazine, magical, magnifying glass, millipedes, New Society Press, Ontario, Peterborough, pillbugs, salamander, shape shifters, study, submarines, summer camp, Things to do, tiny dragons, underworld, yogurt container, Your Lifestyle Magazine

This is part of a series of articles based on Jacob’s new book called the Book of Nature Connection –

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A Tapestry of Colour

August 6, 2022July 14, 2022 Cottage Country 193 Viewsaward-winningoutdoor education centre and summer camp, camp, Canada, CCC Publications, colours, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, Executive Director of Camp Kawartha, gre4en, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, look, nature, New Society Press, Ontario, sensory activities, shades, summer, summer camp, The Book of Nature Connection, Your Lifestyle Magazine

This is a part of a series of articles based on Jacob’s new book called The Book of Nature Connection

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Your Better Sense of Nature

June 1, 2022May 30, 2022 Cottage Country 259 Viewsall ages, American Robin, award-winning education centre, Black-capped Chickadee, Camp Kawartha, Canada, Canada Geese, CCC Publications, Chorus Frogs, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, Deer Ears, environment, feel, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas, Kawarthas Magazine, Kids, lakefield, Lifestyle Magazine, nature, Nature Sound Scavenger Hunt, Ontario, Peterborough, psithurism, Red-winged Blackbird, season, sense, sensory activities, sight, smell, sound, summer, summer camp, taste, The Book of Nature Connection, Things to do, white pine, Your Lifestyle Magazine

This is part of a series of articles based on Jacob’s new book called The Book of Nature Connection –

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The Magic of Nests…

April 30, 2022 Cottage Country 318 Viewsbird, Bobcaygeon, Buckhorn, Camp Kawartha, Canada, CCC Publications, Communities in Cottage Country, Community, cottage, Cottage Country, Cottage Country Connection, cottage country lifestyle, Cottage Country Lifestyle Magazine, Cottage Country Magazine, Cottage Life, Fenelon Falls, home, Jacob Rodenburg, Kawartha Lakes, kawartha magazine, Kawarthas Magazine, Lifestyle Magazine, Lindsay, Nests, Ontario, Peterborough, summer, Things to do, water, Your Lifestyle Magazine

If you think about it, a bird egg is a beautiful thing. Within this fragile container is the promise of

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