It’s important to take time off sometimes, and often you don’t realize just how important it is until you actually take a day off! This Easter weekend was filled with family, friends, and baby chicks! How à propos!
Category: Photography
Updates!
It’s been a busy five months!
Looks beautiful and serene, doesn’t it? Nope. This photo is one of many that represents our fighting with beavers up north.
Unfortunately, they’re doing a lot of damage to the property and risking flooding the road, so we’re required to get them to move on to a different location. This took several months to sort out. We haven’t checked on it in a few weeks. I’m afraid of what we might find, but it’s going to have to happen sooner rather than later. Cross your fingers for me. As a bonus, we did get some really beautiful fall colours to look at while we ripped apart the dam for the 100th time… and we found a really fantastic chip truck nearby.
We got some fishing in, some days more successful than others…
Hallowe’en included pumpkin carving and running out of candy at 7pm… (we had 150 kids in less than 3 hours!)
Along with the holidays comes lots of baking, which I absolutely love. I made our usual family favourites, carrot pudding (shown pre-mixed below), gingerbread, whipped shortbread, fudge, and this year I made pretzel brittle which was a huuuuuge hit!
Woodland Trail Studio was so busy this holiday season, I didn’t even have time to update the website! Our Instagram usually has in progress and finished pieces, so check that out for the latest there, and the website will get updated eventually!
Baby Bunny
Our baby bunny is growing up fast, probably because it keeps eating our garden!
Ocean City, 2014
It was an early start to the day, but with a 10+ hour drive ahead of us, leaving at 4am wasn’t too terrible!
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No idea what these things were, but they were coming in and out of their shells. We felt badly and put them back in the water, but the tide brought it back on the beach… so too bad weird creatures, it wasn’t meant to be.
My view 90% of the week – I spent as much time on the beach as weather and sunburns allowed!
The boardwalk and pier!
H2Oi is a car show held in Ocean City every year – this year it featured 10x the normal amount of police, including mounted police and bike police… and one poor guy that looked exactly like Jonah Hill didn’t get any break from people shouting “JONAH!!!” at him alllll week.
This is the small horseshoe crab we found, a bit bigger than the size of my hand.
This horseshoe crab was HUGE! So big it could have been a helmet, but I wasn’t about to put it on my head!
One morning there was a neat layer of black sand on top of the beach, wonder where it came from? Volcano?
The view of the strip from the balcony on one side. Great place to watch the cars go by!
Pano of the view from the beach on one side to the bay on the other!
I pretty much lived by this chart all week! I was so hoping to find a shark tooth at low tide, but sadly we didn’t find one. It was a great time looking though!
Tiny blue crab!
Sand Crab!
The sunrise as we left… so beautiful!
Our usual backyard visitor
He couldn’t resist a couple of carrots!
scarlet tanager and moth
The brightest birds I’ve ever seen – scarlet tanagers! They were even more amazing set against the backdrop of the trees before the leaves had grown in.
This moth is really pretty, I have no idea what it is though!
Stumpy the chipmunk
“Stumpy” is our overly-friendly local chipmunk up north. He’s got half a tail (hence his name) and personal boundary issues. He’s no stranger to taking the easiest path (across your shoulders, arm, lap, etc.) to seeds, and has even crawled up a leg or two!
friendly fox
Well he wasn’t exactly friendly, but he didn’t seem that scared of us either!
First trip to Algonquin for 2014!
Our first trip up this year, and wow, did we see a LOT of wildlife! It was a rainy, gross day; perfect for a drive through Algonquin Park. A couple of detours due to flooded roads, but we finally got up there!
We saw:
6 moose (1 calf, 5 bull)
20+ deer
3 beavers
1 muskrat
12+ wild turkeys
several assorted hawks/ospreys/birds
Is it just me, or does he look unimpressed?
Cheeeeeeese!
“hare-y” visitor at the bird feeder
A bunny stopped at our feeder to have a snack!
(it’s pitch black out – pretty amazing what the camera did to the lighting!)