Last week, we asked you to share images and memories from your cottages (or camps or cabins). Ian is supposed to be on vacation this week at his cottage so I — Toronto bureau chief of The Times and die-hard Georgian Bay cottager — got to sort through the responses, vicariously traveling to serene spots around the country. Here is a sampling, lightly edited:

Image Scott Powell’s favorite cottage routine is drinking coffee on the breakwater and looking out over Lake Winnipeg near Dunnottar, Manitoba. Credit... Scott Powell

I have sat by the shore of Lake Massawippi in Quebec at least once every summer of my 62 years. My morning ritual is to get up just before dawn to meditate on the screened-in porch as the birds wake up. I then make my first cup of coffee and take it back out to the porch to watch the ducks float past. If I am lucky, the heron stops by.

Annis Karpenko

I grew up spending my summers at camp on an island on the British Columbia coast, Texada. My grandparents built it overlooking a bay that partially emptied with the tide and clams squirted their whereabouts to be dug for dinner. When I was in my 50s I gathered family and friends to kayak on the open ocean coast and finally to build a cabin in the coastal wilderness. It was built with cedar logs, escaped from commercial log rafts finding resting places on our beach.