On a Lifelong Journey to Learn my Place
(Concerning events from 7 June Hike) Four Spotted Skimmer Perhaps it was because of the weather. The muskeg was bathed in the warm sunlight. It was the first full sun this area had seen in over a week. I noticed a black and yellow dragonfly and saw it land not too far from me, so … Read more
My mom leaves tomorrow, so I took advantage of the last day with someone to watch the kids until Melissa gets back and got out on a hike. I went up Mt. Vestovia and ended up making it up to the top of the main peak. I felt fairly good about it, though I did … Read more
Originally I had been thinking that I would like to hike up the Middle Sister, but clouds were still obscuring the mountain peaks, so I decided I would just head up the valley. I considered going up beyond Indian River falls, but became distracted by the calls of Townsend’s Warblers between the first and second … Read more
I went for a walk up Indian River Valley and visited some of the lower valley muskegs. I started in the bench muskeg, went down to the large pine tree clearing, back up to the bench muskeg and then into the larger muskeg up valley from the bench muskeg. Later in the evening I spent … Read more
Swainson’s Thrush Singing (465kb mp3) Weather: Saturday morning it was foggy, but the fog started to break up in the late morning. Sunday it rained throughout the day with low clouds. Birds: It seemed like the birds were singing more on Sunday. I am not sure if that had something to do with the bird’s … Read more
Melissa and Connor left on the late morning flight south, so Rowan and I had much of the day to ourselves. On the way home from the airport we stopped at Alice Island and went for a bit of a walk. Rowan had a lot of fun picking the abundant dandelions growing there. Weather: It … Read more