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I'm back from Canada! I come bearing two boxes of those little maple sugar candies... and that's pretty much it really, I didn't even take many photographs because I didn't like to take my phone on the boat (it occurs to me that this is a drawback with having your phone as your camera). But of course there are beautiful memories.
STUFF I SAW IN CANADA
- a black bear, which loped across the road as we were driving into the resort
- three bald eagles, one of them perched on a high tree limb like it was waiting to have its picture taken ("I think the eagles have moved to Canada for the duration," I suggested)
- AN ENTIRE HILLSIDE FULL OF WILD BLUEBERRIES. I half-filled a water bottle with blueberries, which filled an entire bowl, which I ate in less than a day. I really love blueberries.
- a beaver! This was in an inlet near a resort, where Dad got involved in a struggle with a northern pike, so the wind tugged our boat in an arc around the inlet, and meanwhile in the middle there was this beaver, calmly munching on lily pads which it held in its itty bitty paws. (I'm pretty sure it was lily pads. At any rate it was munching something in the midst of a cluster of lily pads, and once I saw a flash of green.) It would dive down to gather more and then there were be a boiling of bubbles right before it came up, and then it would munch away some more.
We got within ten feet of it and it remained totally chill (being so near the resort, it's become totally blase about humans) and I could have gotten a great and adorable picture and I didn't have my phone with me :( :( :( :( :( :(
- lots of dragonflies, blue and green and gray. When they get close enough you can hear their wings clicking.
- a few orange butterflies, as well, down on the river below the dam where we took the canoe. I like canoes more than motorboats. They're more work but you're closer to the water.
Also I caught a v. nice bass while we were in the canoe, which always endears a boat to you.
- and, on the last morning, mist rising from the lake.
STUFF I SAW IN CANADA
- a black bear, which loped across the road as we were driving into the resort
- three bald eagles, one of them perched on a high tree limb like it was waiting to have its picture taken ("I think the eagles have moved to Canada for the duration," I suggested)
- AN ENTIRE HILLSIDE FULL OF WILD BLUEBERRIES. I half-filled a water bottle with blueberries, which filled an entire bowl, which I ate in less than a day. I really love blueberries.
- a beaver! This was in an inlet near a resort, where Dad got involved in a struggle with a northern pike, so the wind tugged our boat in an arc around the inlet, and meanwhile in the middle there was this beaver, calmly munching on lily pads which it held in its itty bitty paws. (I'm pretty sure it was lily pads. At any rate it was munching something in the midst of a cluster of lily pads, and once I saw a flash of green.) It would dive down to gather more and then there were be a boiling of bubbles right before it came up, and then it would munch away some more.
We got within ten feet of it and it remained totally chill (being so near the resort, it's become totally blase about humans) and I could have gotten a great and adorable picture and I didn't have my phone with me :( :( :( :( :( :(
- lots of dragonflies, blue and green and gray. When they get close enough you can hear their wings clicking.
- a few orange butterflies, as well, down on the river below the dam where we took the canoe. I like canoes more than motorboats. They're more work but you're closer to the water.
Also I caught a v. nice bass while we were in the canoe, which always endears a boat to you.
- and, on the last morning, mist rising from the lake.
