back to reality~

Well I'm back to reality ~ if that's possible.

We had a nice time up at the cabin ... the weather was nice ~ one day.
It rained and rained, then it rained some more.
Last night it quit raining.
Then it snowed.

Our cabin: not the cutest or neatest place on earth ~ but it's the hunting shack and it sure does serve it's purpose as a place to get away from it all. 

A beaver pond ~ this gets Slim's adrenaline pumping ... the big trapper.  I was just hoping to see a moose walk out ... that gets my adrenaline pumping.

a beaver house:

Fresh beaver chewed sticks along the shoreline ... another adrenaline pumper for the big boy ~

Our friend, Porky, with a BIG beaver chewing of a birch tree. When the Big Slim sees signs of beaver like this by a pond you'd think he was going to have "the big one!"

The flowage:

By the dike ~ the water is so low ... and the stumps are plentiful.  You wouldn't want to be running your boat motor full bore through that mess.  You could walk for miles and miles along the shorelines right now.

 

 

 

 

 

an old land marker on a maple tree

 

Some pics of the different kinds of fir trees ~

blue spruce & balsam (round needled)

balsam (flat needled) the kind preferred for wreaths by the factories because they don't crush in shipping

Spruce have beautiful needles; but they won't stay on long enough for a wreath ~ and they are very prickly to handle... plus despite their beauty... they stink.  Balsam has a very nice scent to it. I like making wreaths with round needles because they make a very full looking wreath.

Tamarack has very soft needles; but they turn yellow and then fall off the trees in the winter months.

a chickadee

notice the snow!!!

What a difference a day makes.

zoomed ...

 ladder back woodpecker

Until next time ...

So it goes in my neck of the woods.

~mel