Spring 2010

 Rowena and I enjoyed many day long walks in the City Forest. New leash ordinances kept us on the rougher trails, but that wasn't a bad thing. We very rarely saw another dog (maybe 2 on the rough trails all summer) and rarely any people either. There was the occasional mountain biker. What we found was plentiful star flowers, blue bead lilies, bunch berries, lady's slippers and trillium to fill the whole forest. There were some flowers that were fairly new to my brain this year too. The raven family has grown into a shiney flock. My season ended with two ravens playing in the sky.


Bittersweet was the ending of our summer of forest walks. In July Rowena and I went to Saxl park for some photos and fun and Rosie was attacked quite viciously by another dog. This did scar her (emotionally) as it was just added to a couple of other dog charges and attacks from the year. It scarred me as well and made me a tad agoraphobic. We increase our activity and we get out there, we make ourselves vulnerable to things like that. After July our trips to the forest got less frequent and I feel like we were robbed of more photos of all the changes going on in the woods. By the time we returned, many things were going by and the woods was going silent of birds. The two ravens playing was the last I saw or heard of the ravens that year.

Here is a collection of some of the photos we took with the Canon this past season. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking these pictures.

May Flowers in bloom



Star Flowers  in bloom






Blue Bead Lily in bloom

Sheep's Laurel or Lamb Kill in bloom (one of my favorites)

Unknown flowers on a bush.

Indian Pipes- are actually not a fungus or mushroom like I always thought.  It is a flower! (The Heath  Family)

Fringed Polygala

Wild Columbine

Low Bush blueberries



High Bush blueberries





Painted Trillium

Touch-me-Nots

Pink Lady's slippers

Pearly Everlasting



Pink Strawberry blossom



Lady's Slipper with Bunch Berry blossoms

Leatherleaf?

Thistle with Bee



Pink Wild Lupine

Raven

Grieving the Theft of My Camera



This photo was taken with my Canon at Saxl Park.  The camera really brought the colors out in an already brilliant sunset.

It has been a year of ups and downs and I have done a horrible job at journaling that for you here.  Enjoy these photos and I will organize some from this  past year to show you what my Canon Powershot SX20IS allows me to do.  This camera has been close to my heart both literally and figuratively and to have it gone has really just left me broken hearted.  I am totally distraught and don't  know what to do.  If my friends could donate just a dollar or even five-dollars I might be able to collect enough to replace my camera.  The memory card inside the stolen camera will be a loss I will have to live with and hope I had emptied most of the photos already.

This past summer we went on a number of walks in the City Forest.  We enjoyed a spring full of rebirth.



This is the hill we climb to leave the City forest.  This was the prime of the summer with the grass aglow with buttercups and other flowers, with a touch of blue colored grass mixed  in.

Mama squirrel comes out after a storm to see what she can find to eat.  She must have a full nest by the look of her teats.

 

I had fun with assorted photo ops... this one with Rosie in her Ruff Wear pack and sneakers down by the riverfront early fall.

"Sneeze Weed" down by the riverfront.

A recent snowstorm.  I put my pocket camera to work during a blizzard to keep the lens on my Canon condensation free. This was quite the Blizzard with (as you can see) White out conditions.