Ten Years Ago

As I do every year, I started trying to compile a 'year in review'.  Then I thought I'd look ten years back, and the post I provided that year really intrigued me, so here it is again.  Remember, this was before I was paralyzed and in a wheelchair, and while we were living in our previous house (and when I could still drive!).  It's done as an outline of the seasons running from January to December.

2014 was the year Inglis Falls froze over completely!  Amazing.

The Long Piney Trail was my favourite when I was out cross-country skiing.

Snowbanks were a little extreme that year in the spots where drifting built up the snow. approaching 10 feet.

But soon the first flower of spring, the Skunk Cabbage was poking above the ground (or water), often through the snow or ice.

Right in our own yard this frond of Northern Holly Fern was unfolding.  I've always loved the fiddlehead shape.

In the woods above Old Baldy a field of Trillium was in bloom.

And in our own garden the Day Lilies were flowering.

One of my best efforts at capturing a Monarch on a Butterfly Bush.

Two heavy horses at the Markdale Fall Fair.

One of my favourite spots on the Bruce Trail in the fall.

Snow heavily plastered on young maple trees.

And one of my favourite rural landscape shots.