Ted would be happy to know that today it was VERY mild and the wood pecker took the opportunity of the “summer-like” weather to get busy at work!
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The winter trees looked as though they were on fire when the setting sun shone upon them.
The fawn looked as though she could not be more than a month old as her fur was all soft to touch and fluffy. She moved slowly and gently and looked into the lens, as if to say, “Hi, my name is Baby Fluffy”. :) I thought she was the cutest of all as she has long eye lashes and shinny tender eyes. And of course I’m pretty sure my “Baby Fluffy” would not mind if I donate the earning from her pretty face to save her environment. :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Nature Canada
River and I drove for a couple of hours before dawn and got to a spot up on a little hill in the woods, kind of feeling “freezing to death”, so we thought we’d wake up the sun and this is when…. Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Nature Canada
The fawn inched closer, almost touching my lens and gave me the loveliest smile as if to say, “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who has the loveliest smile of us all?” :)
In a cold sunny day in the forest, River was teaching herself to “stalk” a “prey”, the fast moving squirrel. She hid herself behind some fallen branches in the freezing deep snow, patiently waited, waited, and waited some more, hoping the squirrel would fall in front of her, just because she was concentrating so hard.
My patient who lives in the woods set up a feeding pan for the deer who live around him and this little fawn looks really well fed thanks to my patient. She was not in so much of a hurry to get food anymore so she had time to pose for a nice portrait in front of her “food source”. :) My patient liked this young fawn very much as he thought she looked as though she was a “stuffed animal”. :) :) :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Nature Canada.
My new wolf friend seemed to like having his pictures taken – he stared “up close and personal” right into the lens. I believe it is only fitting to donate the proceeds of the sale of this image to a park that more than 200 wolves call home! :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Algonquin Park
My new wolf friend was determined to teach me how to howl after our shared lunch. He very “tenderly” took half of my sandwich from my offering hand with his mouth, lay it down on the ground and ate it layer by layer, slowly and savoringly, unlike my dog River, who would ALWAYS “wolf down” whatever is offered to her! :) So now he set out, just a few feet away, raised one front leg a tiny bit for emphasis and howled. I got down on all fours, copied the posture and did the same. Obviously he was a little dissatisfied with my learning so he repeated the whole thing another time. And this time he was happy with his pupil. What a patient teacher I had! :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Nature Canada
My new friend posed and wanted me to get his face “right”, although I am still not sure that I did. I tried though. Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Algonquin Park
River and I ventured out in the woods one day and I got stuck in the deep-icy-snow. While we were waiting for the tow truck to come from 70 km away from the nearest town, River took me for a little walk and we came by this lone leaf on top of the clean snow, untouched by “humanness”. :)
The buck was patient with my camera as he wanted to make sure I got his best portrait but he was losing patience with me as he had been standing still very long, from the corner of his eye, he was watching as though wondering how long he had to keep still like this! :)
River was waiting eagerly for her friend the coyote to approach. They then ran away together for almost an hour, leaving me wandering in the woods by myself on my snowshoes! :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Algonquin Park
River loved this lone boulder in the middle of the forest. She ran around it until she got dizzy! It was a bit difficult to climb to the top of the hill with my snowshoes (the boulder is kind of the “midpoint”) but when I finally did it, River and I shared some peanuts under the crisp blue sky in the COLD COLD air (my car says it’s -32˚c down the hill but of course my dear Mooseman Ted would not believe it). :)
River finally struggled up her deep “snow valley” and was proud to pose for the camera! :)
Hidden in the forest and facing a big lake in the deep snow, sits my “dream house” in the Laurentian Mountains. :)
When there was this much snow in the woods, where even deer, moose or caribou would not venture, River jumped right in and made her own “road”. A ski resort had to close one of its runs because moose were using it as the ski runs were a lot easier to walk on for them than the deep snow that had been falling and falling this winter here! :) As for me, well, I have a really good pair of snowshoes so I’m “floating” on top. :)
One shall not be fooled by the crisp deep blue sky – yes, it was gorgeous but it was -35˚c whether or not my friend Ted believes it (he never does anyway as he seems to think Canada has become a tropic region after he left). :) River didn’t mind it at all though – the only “tracks” on the photo are River’s. Sometimes she left HUGE whole body tracks because the snow was so deep. I think she is preparing herself to live with the wolves on the tundra! :)
Just before a snowstorm the fog was trying to “block” the sun but…. :) Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Algonquin Park
After another big snowstorm, this is how many places look like! :)
This image was taken from a steep hill at the highlands of Algonquin Park in Ontario (the famous wolf park where over 200 protected wild wolves call home – it is still legal to hunt, trap and kill wolves here in Canada unfortunately). Although I was stepping in deep snow at -35˚c, this “far shot” gave a “false” sense of spring. :)
This is taken mid-morning after River and I ran into a HUGE moose after we got on a little path called “Camp Pathfinder” and followed the BIG footprints of a moose. There was so much snow that the moose literally sank to her stomach while walking. The poor thing was so heavy and had so much trouble dragging her feet from the deep snow and then sinking them in just as deep again. :( River was being a particular “brat” that day as she showed off by jumping and running circles around the giant moose and yet the gentle giant didn’t seem to be disturbed at all. Donation to charity / 50% of the proceeds of the sale of this image will be donated to Algonquin Park
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