I’d always wanted to visit the Carol Shields labyrinth in Winnipeg’s King’s Park. On Victoria Day I did with my group of friends the T-4s.
We started our afternoon with a picnic lunch. My friend Esther had picked up all kinds of salads, feta cheese, pitas and humus at a Greek Deli. I’d made little desserts and brought an assortment of beverages. 
It was a picture perfect afternoon. Sunshine, blue sky, puffy clouds, blossoming trees and the scent of lilacs in the air.
After lunch Debbie painted a watercolor while the rest of us did some sketching.
Then it was off to walk the labyrinth in Kings Park built in honor of Pulitzer Prize winning Manitoba author Carol Shields perhaps best known for her novel Stone Diaries.
At the entry to the maze is a billboard explaining who Carol was and the significance of the labyrinth.
At the rear is a wall containing quotes from Carol’s writing.
My favorite was…………
The whole thing about mazes is that they make perfect sense only when you look down on them from above. There can be one route or many. It means that are lives are open.- from the novel Larry’s Party
Before we started sketching Esther inspired us by reading the lyrics of a song about the creative process called I Think A Thing from a musical about artist Emily Carr
A picnic, some sketching, good friends, good food and walking a literature maze. It WAS a picture perfect afternoon!
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I too had always wanted to visit the Carol Shields labyrinth. I finally did a couple of years ago. But it was in late fall and the area around it was more brown than the greens in your photos. This is a good reminder to visit again,
It does sound like a perfect afternoon. On my to-do list, too. I’m a tad disappointed, though. I was expecting a Harry Potter style confusion—more like a corn maze. Is there a difference between a maze and a labyrinth? I must google.
Yes a maze apparently gives you many choices of routes while a labyrinth has only one winding path to follow. I think the one in Kings Park is a bit of both because depending where you start you can go different ways.
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