Saturday, October 09, 2010

Nature at it's finest....


Oh I am long past due for making a post. Holy cow how time flies. Summer is over and we are well into fall.

This weekend Canadians will be celebrating Thanksgiving. As a child I knew we celebrated our thanksgiving earlier than our neighbours south of the border, but I never understood why. In simple terms, Canadian Thanksgiving is all about celebrating the harvest.
Being farther north we harvest our crops earlier and we give Thanks for their bounty.


I have always loved fall. I love the smells, the crisp leaves the beautiful colours it's so gorgeous that I am in awe of it's beauty and at times it takes my breath away and draws me to tears.

Last weekend my youngest daughter and I went on a lovely walk/hike to a place called Seal Bay. The trails as Seal Bay are on both sides of the road. If you

Melda's Marsh

go to the right you make a long steep trek down to the water...it's great going down but can be challenging coming up. If you go to the left you follow along a lovely trail which takes you to a marsh and you can observe so much of what nature and fall can bring to such wooded areas. My camera was misbehaving, and hence I didn't get as many photos as I would have liked. It would appear by the photos that I did take that I was in awe of the variety of mushrooms and how and where they grew. My daughter and I walked both sides ....the marsh and the water......

My peace plant in bloom.....


And with that I leave you.....Peace Out!!

7 comments:

Leslie: said...

Happy thanksgiving to you and yours. Have a great weekend! :D

Carver said...

Happy Thanksgiving! What a delightful post. I love wild mushrooms and fungi. You took some wonderful photographs. I hope you have a great weekend.

Joyful said...

Beautiful. I love Fall too. Happy
Thanksgiving!

peppylady (Dora) said...

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I to been lacking in the posting. We to seem to have a wonderful fall.

Coffee is on,

Jo said...

Oh, what gorgeous pictures. Isn't British Columbia and especially Vancouver Island, beautiful in the fall?

Happy Thanksgiving...!

Cheers,

Jo

Akelamalu said...

Happy Thanksgiving to you.

I love the photos. :)

Jeni said...

I love when you do one of your nature posts! Your photos -even if your camera wasn't being ultra-cooperative, are still so beautiful. I've been very lax since my surgery about the walking -initially, only going for very short walks but last week, I did venture out for a two-miler and felt great when I got back home. I have to get back into that track again, fully -and do it soon too! Peace to you too, my friend!