The Inspiration Behind Meg Harris's Wilderness Home
One thing I want to do with this blog is bring alive the West Quebec wilderness that inspired the setting for the Meg Harris mystery series. It is a setting where I spend half my time. Although Tamarack, the property I share with my husband Jim and standard poodle DeMontigny, is considerably more modest than Meg's Three Deer Point, I love the squared timber cabin as much as Meg loves her rambling Victorian cottage with its turret of blinking windows.
It is where the creative juices flow, so to speak. Whenever writer's block strikes, I retreat to the tranquility of the surrounding forest. And all it takes is the pungent aroma of pine or the cheep of a curious chickadee to banish the distractions of daily Ottawa life and before I know it the keyboard is clattering and I'm busily extricating Meg Harris out of the latest debacle I've put her in.
So my thought is to provide snapshots of this every changing land as it transforms from one season to the next. And what better place to start than with spring.
posted by RJ Harlick @ 1:58 PM
