MARILYN CORNWELL: Marilyn's Photos - Oct 13 2025

Without the CBC how would we know the great Canadian stories across our country. Here’s a story that reminds me of our own driving up through the rocky outcrops of Highway 69 when we went to the cottage near Parry Sound. The great granite boulders at the sides of the road first got graffiti in the form of initials and first names, and then got what is known as Inukshukification when the rural highway was replaced with a superhighway. Wasn’t that a Mike Harris personal project? So he could get to his Nipissing riding or his cottage faster?

Back to this cute pair of eyes looking down at Highway 103. They’ve been there since 2017 and were created by Jason Smith, a friend and Jason’s children. He has maintained the eyeball rocks over the years.

But now the highway is going to be enlarged/widened and the rocks will be blasted away. Too bad they can’t be moved a little further over, and remain there to entertain drivers. They aren’t separate, sitting on the ground. They are part of a larger rock, hence the upcoming demise. It will be no small feat - look at the size of the rocks in the second picture.

Read more about the story of the eyeball rocks HERE.

The picture below that? A little Inukshuk sculpture on the shores of Lake Ontario.