There is little joy to be found for drivers along highways 401 and 402 in Southwestern Ontario, unless you appreciate pavement, gravel, highway markers and weeds.

There is little joy to be found for drivers along highways 401 and 402 in Southwestern Ontario, unless you appreciate pavement, gravel, highway markers and weeds.

But luckily for me, I am often in the passenger’s seat, and get to enjoy the wildflowers in September and fall colours in October and November.

Asters, in white and blue, have been strutting their colours through September and will fade by mid-October.

Mostly growing in the centre median, asters possess a surprising ability to grow in poor soil with little water. This year, with........

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