A case of mass amnesia ???

I follow occasionally the goings on of our neighbors to the south, hard not to as we are bombarded with there media, and since a good portion of our winged wildlife spends some time across the boarder every winter I like staying updated with whats going on down there. 

So last week it came to my attention that the Great Savior of the world had fallen out of favor with his country man and women, amazing what can happen in just two years. 

Now what puzzles me is why, did he do something horrible to insight there wrath ??? after all the rest of the world still hold him in great esteem ( well, not all but a good portion does, us included ) 

The way I see it he came to power at a time his country and the whole world were in crisis, the collapse of economies across the globe was eminent, this all brought on under the eight year stewardship of the Republican party and a trend of deregulating big business. Bail out plans across the world were implemented to save banks and economies from collapsing, and still to this day we are globally feeling the effects of the US mortgage crisis with riots in Greece and now in France. 

So now in the midterm elections held last week the population of the great USofA decided to punish Mr Obama for something created way before he came to power, yes they say he is not doing enough to boost the economy, not creating enough jobs, etc, but realistically how could anyone do more while at the same time not letting things get out of hand again ??? Can one realistically expect an economy to be turn around in a mere two years ???, I don’t think so , but our neighbors do it seems.

A case of mass amnesia, they have forgotten who created the problems they are experiencing  and are blaming the Democrats instead of the Republicans, very interesting !! 

We definitely seem to be living in a world were instant solutions are expected, and blame is assigned by spinning the truth into political gains to obtain power. In a time of fast media ,high speed internet, texting, twitter and social networks we don’t educate ourselves enough with whats going on, everything is abbreviated to hold our flitting attention, we believe the sensational and don't bother to find out the truths, a sad reality of the modern world.  

Now on a much lighter topic we went on another hike this weekend , we were going to go down to Toronto to the R.O.M. to see the “The Warrior Emperor and China’s Terracottas Army” but the sun was shining and we decided to spend the day outdoors and explore another section of the York Regional Forest . This time we picked the Scouts tract on McCowan Rd just south of the Vivian Rd. 

We left here around 10 AM , the temperature somewhere between 0 and +4, it had snowed almost all day the day before but hardly any had stuck to the ground so we drove east through the typical November scenery of browns and golds , but as we neared our destination white started appearing on the ground and then on the trees, by the time we arrived at the forest everything was white making it a very magical walk as the sun shone through the leafless trees making the snow sparkle and started melting the snow from the tops of the trees making it fall as if it was snowing. We got to the lakes and found them half covered in ice, that combined with the crystal clear water and surrounding dormant vegetation made for some great pictures which I’ll share with you now. A very pleasant hike !!!