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the HERALD Wednesday August 1991 Arts 6- ideas Page Cape Breton escapade In the last 10 years my wife and I have been vacationing in Cape Breton quite often We just returned from another two weeks on this wonderful island Charlie the force behind the new and expanded Dominion Seed House here in Georgetown started a resort the Dingwall Cape Breton three years ago In these three years he has grown to motel units and eight cabins of them overlooking the wide crescent of Aspy Bay at the tip of Cape Breton The cabins have either one or two bedrooms and all the tions have color television and telephone service The cabins compact kit and microwave ovens AH the units are electrically heated A lodge with a large dining room was opened last year Two chefs Donald and Todd Maclntyre prepare truly fabulous dinners and lunches For instance Grilled Atlantic salmon with a tangy sorrel butter sauce Or Seared Cape Breton lamb loin with garlic thyme and mustard in red wine sauce Or Peppered shrimp in a curry butter sauce The menus for lunch and dinner are different every day A local lady with the delightful name Cordelia bakes the bread for the and prepares desserts like apple strudel and Swiss chocolate roll and all her creations are scrump tious On sunny days lunch is served on the deck of the lodge with a great view over the bay towards the mountains And of course there is breakfast The has a swimming pool for timid souls but the very large beach that is part of the resort is far nicer than any swimming pool could possibly be and the bathing in the cool and in vigoratmg Atlantic is sensa tional Tossed by the long waves rolling into the bay I spent as much as 30 minutes in the water each time and that as often as three times a day It takes years off you The Markland also has rowing boats to be used on a large pond behind a sand dune and it has bicycles for tours around the Corn Fest Cap off the golden days of sum mer and enjoy corn on the cob at the Ontario Agricultural Museum 11th annual Family Corn Festival Ontario s plentiful corn harvest will be celebrated on Sunday August from m to5p Thousands of cobs of corn will be prepared using an old fashion method A 1920 Sawyer steam engine will cook the corn while still in the husk sealing in the freshly eked flavor While feasting on this seasonal treat visitors can kick up their heels with a local square dancing or try their hands at corny trivia children will enjoy a puppel show ind corny crafts Ideas and jPjI The Arts by John Summer area which is one of the most scenic in the world But you don have to be active at all n Cape Breton It s the kind of place where you want to sit for hours in the verandah of your cab n look out over the Atlantic and the gossamer sts from the sea drift over the mountains Or you might watch the fishing boats in the bay or the circling seagulls in the air The sky seems to be higher than in Ontario and the air is fresher and at night you sleep like a log One day we visited another resort a religious one that im pressed me very deeply It call Gampo Abbey and it s located at Pleasant Bay on the west side of Cape Breton Gampo Abbey is a monastic retreat for the practise and study of Buddhism It was founded by Abbot Chogyam in 1984 on a 200 acre farm overlooking Pleasant Bay Chogyam Trungpa was one of the greatest of the spiritual leaders of old Tibet before the com Chinese invaded the coun try in the early fifties Like the Dalai Lama and other Tibetans high and low Trungpa had to flee from his home coun try He came to North America and has since then done mis sionary work on this continent We went to Abbey because it had Open House that day Usually only those peo ple that undertake a program of study and meditation are living at the abbey We were ushered to a wonderful room that was decorated the colors blue orange and yellow It was the shrine of the abbey its most sacred place and it had been built into a former barn in such a way that the view out of two large windows over a vast expanse of the sea gave one the impression to hover over this mighty body of water in mid air Our courteous and dignified hosts entertained us with a magnificent of Kyudo archery by one of the greatest Kyudo archers of to day Shibata and archer of the Emperor of Japan In Kyudo the bow and arrow is not used as a weapon nor as a gadget of competition but as a means of self discovery The ar row has to be released at the right moment the moment greatest concentration Shibata Sensai in a ritualized per formance of immense artistry turned this path of self discovery into a for the onlooker highly suspenseful and metaphorical event Before that his wife had given us a demonstration of the tough and disciplined art of Japanese flower arrangement Her seemingly harmless art nevertheless carried the of JAKES AUTO CLEAN Steam Cleaning Interior Shampoo Under Car Oiling Scotch Guard 265GUELPHST 8773802 DONT FORGET OUR ADDRESS CHANGEI Fire Retardanl Engine Shampoo Sheen Paint Touch Up GEORGETOWN profound messages messages we tend to ignore at our own peril Let me try to put them into words Order is super or to disorder Less is more Time is of no consequence Truth is beauty To care means to live fully I felt that the afternoon at Gampo Ab bey had opened our minds 9 HEART AND STROKE Of ONTARIO IMPROVING YOUR ODDS AGAINST CANADAS KILLER