Refractions

The Landscape There is a trail in Lake Superior Provincial Park that we have hiked together two or three times. The Orphan Lake Trail is not our favourite. But is has its rewards. The lake in the middle of it is quiet and green, and the stone beach of the great inland sea is as close to primordial as I have known.  But it is a lot of work, and has none of the panoramas of other, equally-demanding trails. There is a part of the Orphan Lake Trail that had, a decade or so ago, a forest fire. There are no large trees in that part of the forest. If you are in the lumber business, this is not what you would call a profit centre.  There is something there, though, in July, something lovely and rare - wild blueberries.  You won't find them in the forest, but you can find them where the forest used to be. If you are in the lumber business, the blueberries might not make much of an impression on you. But if you are just noticing what's there, they are a delight, a kind of gra...