Category: Winter
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Slip Sliding Away
All photos taken on March 18, 2024. With the promise of warm weather in the future, we wanted to get out into the forest before it got too muddy. No worries about that this day. However, withing 3 steps, we knew we would need to add traction control. We started off at Beaver Pond Loop…
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Out in the Wild
All photos taken on March 13, 2024. We seldom see much more than birds and squirrels on our Bunchberry Meadows walks. In spring and summer, when our shoes no longer crunch on snow and we no longer have to wear snow pants that swish, we will often see deer grazing in the meadows and even…
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Its All About the Details
All photos taken on March 13, 2024. Forest walks can often present you with a different perspective, both on the forest and on life. Our walks are both for exercise and to recharge from whatever crap is going on in life. The day may be foggy or sunny, but there is always something to see.…
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Clearing the Fog
All photos taken on March 13, 2024. Our provincial axiom is “If You Don’t Like the Weather, Just Wait Five Minutes”. This walk perfectly embodies that motto. No matter how much planning we put into our weekly walk, the weatherman does not always fully cooperate. If he says a mix of sun and cloud, you…
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Ponds and Trees
All photos taken on March 7, 2024. Our two favourite Elk Island walks have a few things in common. There are numerous ponds and trees on both walks. There are beavers living in those ponds on both walks, but the beavers along the Beaver Pond Loop seem Hell bent on eliminating the forest trees, while…
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Its a Wild World?
All photos taken on March 7, 2024. Every week when we go for our forest walk, we hope against hope for wildlife sightings, a deer, an elk, a bison, a wolf, a coyote, even a humble rabbit. But, more often than not, we are disappointed. During the winter, it is obvious there is a lot…
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Still Life
All photos taken on March 7, 2024. With the thick cloak of new snow, the forest was silent except for songs of chickadees, blue jays and pileated woodpeckers and he incessant chatter of red squirrels. Oh, there was that hum from the Parks maintenance yard, but we did our best to block it out. The…
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Happy Trails
All photos taken on March 7, 2024. It is only fitting this post would drop today, as yesterday, we got to a high of only 8C and it was supposed to drop to near freezing last night. Fortunately, it settled at +4C, but I covered my poor tomatoes, just in case. Snow and cold had…