Salix has started a new fitness program to go along with his diet. Frisbee is by far his favourite outdoor sport. Chasing rubber bands is still the favourite indoor activity, after eating.
He's only caught one frisbee so far, but he's steadily improving.
The turkey with booze line-up in the background (note that beers and white wine were stored outside to keep cool).
Hangover hike with the masses
Anne in green and blue
Krystil and Chris
There's always fun when Kathryn's around.
The siblings making up after a tiff.
Birthday princess with breakfast cake.
The Jetta hitting 500 mega metres on the Duffy!
Salix stayed home and hid under the carpet with his rubber band all weekend.
Quebec's beautiful decidous forests.
One of the 120 lakes in La Mauricie.
Forges du St. Maurice National Historic site. Cast iron and iron were made here from 1730 to 1880.
The devil's fountain. Note that the water is on fire on the left.
Chaque village a au moins une église.
Les couleurs d'automne
sumac
un mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Shawinigan has friendly ducks.
The local brew pub - Le trou du diable. You can order four small tasters that add up to a pint. I was pretty stoked. From left to right: Doppleweizen, Stout, Rauchweizen, Heffeweizen. It was Octoberfest, so they had a lot of German beers on special. All were made in house and all the food was local and yummy as well.
I had the lucky combination of a window seat and great weather on my flight from Kelowna to Montreal on Sunday. We started out in a small plane and I was definitely excited about the propellers.
Blue layers of the Columbia mountains.
Columbia River and morning fog.
Somewhere in the Selkirks.
Rocky mountains
Exshaw, just east of Canmore, AB.
Kananaskis Lake on the left
Sprawling suburbia, Calgary
Downtown Calgary and the Bow River
The Prairies
Meandering River
This shots a bit hazy, but if you look closely, you can see the yellow and reds of the deciduous forests of Ontario.
I fianally took advantage of all the fall sunshine we've been having and headed out to the garden with my camera. I discovered lots of cool bugs about.
Pollen-covered bee
busy trio
funky fly on a mustard flower
Gross aphids that took over my brussel sprouts : (
I harvested our hops today. There were quite a few lady beetles hanging out on the flowers.
And a big spider!
Female cross spider (Araneus diadematus) - apparently the males are a lot smaller.
And yet another funky insect in the hops.
Eating a green alien aphid.
This guy got so excited about eating aphids that he had to stick his bum in the air.
Arse! And the bugs seemed to be associated with some black mold too. Luckily I still got two window screen trays of our own hops and a couple of trays of Steve-and-Catherine hops.
Then I moved onto the wood shed where a wood-stacking critter had done some work.
