# Cottage weekend

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly), 2015-07-27

architect-this-city, atc, athiscity, collingwood, cottage, cottage-weekend, georgian-bay, instagram, monocle, monocle-magazine, ontario, photos, snapchat, summer, thornbury, uncategorized, weekend

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I just got home from a weekend up at a friend’s cottage. It’s an annual birthday tradition and it’s always a great time. A good cottage weekend can do wonders to reinvigorate yourself. I am ready for the week.

But since the [Pan Am Games](http://www.toronto2015.org/) closing ceremony fireworks are about to kick-off and I want to go watch them from my sun deck, I don’t have a lot of time to write a post. So instead, I thought I would share a few of my photos from the weekend.

The first photo is near Shelburne, Ontario. The wind turbines are from the [Amaranth Wind Farm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_Wind_Farm), which is the largest wind energy installation in Canada.

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/4e501d89b505d6e9142851d826672c4e.jpg)

This is the Georgian Bay. I love swimming in this water.

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/16cc7a38a7674e34ab1821c6d6756aaf.jpg)

Cottage reading: [Monocle](http://monocle.com/).

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/08b93f54f1524cf7cffbd8925a9cc8a9.jpg)

The wood shop. There’s a lot of creative talent at this particular cottage.

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a995d12234ed10a821a997cbef2dd380.jpg)

Creemore = cottage.

![image](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/3ba9021e56c4fe4f9c485a09eb5d7894.jpg)

All of these photos were also [posted to my Instagram](https://instagram.com/donnelly_b/) if you’d like to follow me there. The last photo was from Snapchat (donnelly\_b).

Regular scheduled programming will resume tomorrow. I have a great guest post queued up on road pricing. I can’t wait to share it.

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://paragraph.com/@brandondonnelly/cottage-weekend)*