Thursday Travels: Leaving the Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail

(8 June 2012.  Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail.  Cape Breton Highlands National Park.  Nova Scotia.)

(8 June 2012. Glasgow Lakes Look-Off Trail. Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Nova Scotia.)

Now that we’ve had a little rest on that rock just to the right, it’s time to make our way back.  We have other trails to hike since this one turned out to be under water.

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Thursday Travels: Point Wolfe

Point Wolfe River

M and I took our first hike in Fundy National Park in the Point Wolfe area.  We took the Shiphaven Trail, which overlooks Point Wolfe, to the Point Wolfe Beach trail which takes you down to the Point Wolfe Estuary and Beach.  It was an early morning hike.  We met a few people along the trail, all of them headed out, so we ended up having the trail and the beach to ourselves.

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Back to the mines (Thursday Travels)

When we left off last week, we were just working our way down to the Paint Mines.  It was cloudy, breezy, and storms were rumbling off in the distance.

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Thursday Travels

Somewhere near the Calhan Paint Mines in Colorado.

One of my goals this year is to sort through photos from our trips to Colorado in 2009 and 2010.  Many of them have not seen the light of day since they were taken, and that means they haven’t appeared on my blog or been seen in print.

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Another hike at Quail Hollow

Monday morning visitor

The male cardinal paid us a visit this morning.  He’s being quite cooperative this year, allowing me just enough time to catch him with the camera.  I almost (just missed!) caught him and the Mrs. sitting together like the lovely couple they are.  They were at and near the feeder just as the sun hit the wildflower meadow so that the background of my photos is lit up with a lovely shade of golden-yellow.

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