Cranberries anyone?

Today was the trip to the Cranberry Festival in Bala Ontario ( Cranberry capital of Ontario) We left home at 7 am in the dark, and with very overcast awful looking weather. It rained on the way and the sky started to wake up with the most gorgeous skyscape I've seen in awhile. Between rain and the sun peaking out, I was amazed to see a complete rainbow - full horizon to horizon and all aspects of the spectrum in vivid colour. It was breathless - one of my blessings for the day. We took the more meandering picturesque route to get there - never having driven this way before, I was intent on reading the map and keeping us on track but was able to view the beautiful Lake Muskoka area with all its waterfront mansions - this is where all the movie stars have their summer homes. Reached the Marsh before opening time but were able to wander about before the shuttle buses began their routes back and forth between the Marsh and the downtown area. It was better to rely on the buses because there would be no parking if we had driven to town - only 7 km away. Here in the village, streets were closed to traffic and vendor tents set up everywhere and the arena and community centre also full of venders. So much to see and of course so much one could buy if so inclined haha After wandering around here, it was back to the Marsh on the bus and the wagon rides had commenced with tours around the many fields of cranberries. It was very interesting to see the fields flooded and berries gathered, and then into the factory to see how the berries are cleaned. dried, and sorted on large conveyer belts with real people sitting at the tables hand picking/sorting the berries. Then they go up another conveyer belt and into the bin where they are bagged and sealed and boxed. This company also is home to Muskoka Lakes Winery where they use the cranberries to make wines of all sorts. They had a wine testing/cheese tent set up but we didn't go in to test. Harry bought a 25 lb box of cranberries. Tomorrow apparently we are making more juice.
So that was my day. I shall go to bed now to rest up for a full day of juice making tomorrow. The weather is calling for rain for a week with some mixing ( rain/snow) at the end of next week. Dismal weather to look forward to especially when so much needs to be done outside.
Have a great weekend, and I look forward to seeing your messages. Take care