~ Photography by Pat Beaudoin, Sioux Lookout Photographer
Blueberry Bert is back and on-hand for Opening Day of our annual 10-day Blueberry Festival. Highlights for me were the Scottish Pipes performance and the fun Pie-Eating Contest, blueberry pie of course. Best of all was watching my three grandchildren enjoying being together again for the month of August.
A brief history of the Blueberry Festival and this year’s Schedule of Events is here.
Last Saturday we attended Dryden’s Centennial Air Show, about an hour from home. It’s been years since we enjoyed an air show and this was my first experience with a camera in hand. I learned tons about what not to do the next time in terms of photography, however it will likely be years before another show comes our way and what I learned will be long forgotten by then! Quite the experience.
The first half of the show was commemorative in nature and very interesting historically.
This B-25 Bomber heads back through the smoke to survey the result of the “bombs” it has just dropped.
Swiftly moving in on the target. Stunning Pyro effects! The bomb cavity wide open.
The B-25J “Miss Mitchell” completed over 130 missions as part of the 12th Air Force in North Africa and Italy during WWII. Following a 12-year restoration by the Minnesota Wing of the Commemorative Air Force in 1992, Miss Mitchell now appears at air shows throughout the United States and Canada.
The sounds and visual effects of this demonstration were quite sobering for me… one can only imagine what war really is.
Luckily, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Water Bombing Demonstration followed shortly afterwards. 
