Seasonal

Walking through the snow

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

Today started off like it held promise of a clear day.

 

 

 

 

Clear skies and cool temperatures, as the sun rose up over the hill behind us, I captured the sun breaking over the MacHattie homestead.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

So after lunch we decided to take a walk through the woods on our property. There’s an old road that circles the property and I have been working the last couple years to keep it clear of alder and brush. Plenty of rabbit tracks this year although we never see them up near the house as usual. Maybe the spring will hold a bounty of bunnies! 🙂 Also seen deer tracks, a couple partridge up in a tree but they flew away before I could get the camera ready, another small bird I think is a robin and what might be a small weasel according to the tail trail it left behind. So here are some pictures of the wood trail and down at the lake.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry
Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry
Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

Lots of trees have ice on them like below.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

We made it to the lake but we were not the first one’s there.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry
Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

Trudging along 🙂

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

Not sure what kind of bird is in the pic below.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

There’s a natural spring here.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

Lots of activity here at the ‘turn around’.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

And we’ve come full circle. Not sure what kind of tree that is in the picture below on the left. Its leaves hang on throughout the winter and only fall off with the new buds appearing in the spring.

Loch Katrine,Nova Scotia,Canada,Southwest River Lake
Photo credit Jim Barry

It was a good walk, took us about an hour! 🙂

A Newfoundland born Canadian with a life long interest in woodworking, baking and anything else that peaks my curiosity.

2 Comments

    • Jim Barry

      it was a warm day actually, just about -1 C. The snow was about 10cm of fluffy snow, then a crust of ice, then another 15cm or so of denser snow under that ice. So I never knew from one step to the next if I was going to fallen right in.

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