A Wednesday Walk Through the Quebec Wildfire Haze
My entry for the #wednesdaywalk community, as hosted by @tattodjay.
Or Mordor? Or maybe better, GNAT CITY. For this week's share, I headed back to the top of the bluff to visit my most favorite place to hike...the old Mathy Rock Quarry. The skies were still hazy due to the Canadian wildfires, and there was an air pollution warning...yet I still headed out. I've been here before and shared before, so it's not a new place. Yet it's my favorite place to visit.
I stopped here this week to literally get away from it all. And this place let's you "get away from it all." It's an odd place, but special. Some two miles behond the ridge line in the photo above, there is a city of 60,000 people. Yet, you have no idea you are so close to so much urbarnization. No traffic noise, no railway noise, no sense there is civilization nearby.
The area is more or less an abandoned quarry; that's interesting, of course. Yet the real uniqueness to this place are the stories of fae music and fae activity. I've mentioned it before on Hive, but this place is unique. There is an otherworldly feel to it as you meander through the area. It's almost like I've been here before, if you know what I mean...there is a unique sense of belonging when I'm here. And it never goes away...each time I visit, I get that same sense of "knowing"...it's surreal. It's a place that feels very familiar to me.
I've only explored a bit of the area, but there are more trails I really need to figure out and explore. Maybe there is some type of treasure there; not material in nature, but maybe something even more meaningful. Someday I'll explore, but real life was calling me back home, and away I went...
No fairy sightings of course, but I will figure it out one day too, lol. Until then, I will always have my fortress of solitude readily available, minutes away when the need arises.
Thanks for checking out my share for this week's #wednesdaywalk! I hope everyone had a wonderful Wednesday too...and until next week!
I like quiet spots, this looks like a spot to have a walk away from all the noises out there, it will most probably be my favorite place as well if such a place is near.
I might join the Wednesday walk one of these days.
You should! It's honestly forced me to get a post in and enjoy the outdoors. It's also forced me to do some research to explore new places when timing is possible.
I will give it a shot, it should help me to explore my new place a bit.
its so breathtakingly beautiful there i can see why it is one of your favorite places
The air quality has been so bad, I have bene tempted to ignore it and go for a walk but after the damage to my lungs from TB years ago, I have COPD and have learnt with age I have to be sensible sometimes and have stayed indoors mostly
Thanks for joining the Wednesday Walk this week
I don't blame you - I could feel it in my lungs way over here. My wife is in NYC this week, and sent some photos...wow. It looked apocalyptic on the east side of the country...quite surreal
yeah the photos from NYC are crazy arent they
Wow, quality shots man, you've an eye for it..
thanks! all the credit is due to the area...just lucky to be around it all.
I love your fortress of solitude! Everyone should have one really. The beautiful photos you shared already gives me a sense of magic and wonder. Probably fae's doing! 😉
If you hadn't mention about the 60,000 people beyond that ridge, I wouldn't know.
thanks ! Yeah it truly is quite a special place...I don't about reincarnation, but I really do feel like I've been here before if that makes sense. Quite the sensibility, you know?
Wooo! Wonderful shots, thanks for sharing
thanks so much!
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