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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (58)1/11/1999 9:19:00 AM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (1) of 325
 
Steve,

Your trip along the coast sounds great. I can only imagine such a thing as I look out over snow-covered fields on a 0 F. day with a strong wind blowing from the northwest to make it feel much colder...(-:

However, I did do a bit of snowshoeing yesterday out in the fields to break a ski trail into the back of our property. Very deep powder snow here which can be tough going even on snowshoes. With the wind and the cold today, the snow will start to turn hard and it will be easier going the next time I'm out. Although the fields seem quite barren at this time of year, it's nice to see the dried out plants such as the milkweed which is all grey and dry with silvery-white fluff exploding from it. Also, to look at all of the bird nests which are now exposed to plain sight in small bushes and trees every few feet along the trail. At this time of year, you also tend to notice all of the different textures of treebark a lot more. I am thinking of making some rustic furniture and perhaps a garden arbor using wood from trees that were damaged or destroyed in the ice storm a year ago. I'll bring my Swede saw along with me from now on when I go snowshoeing into the bush. It doesn't really take that many trips to bring home enough supplies for a project.

I was thinking about what you said about never being far from "civilization" as you travel in your kayak. But isn't it extraordinary to find how different the world around you seems when you are travelling in a canoe. One of my favourite creeks isn't too far from my farm. It passes through a small town and then through farmland and forests. However, from the water, you are barely aware of any of the "landscape" beyond the cattails and bullrushes that form a tall "hedge", or the dense willows and green ash that overhang the creek. From the canoe, you just see blue heron, large colonies of water lilies, abundant birdlife... and all of this often with 300 feet of someone's house as you glide silently by. Perhaps that image will give you an idea of why my alias is "crocodile"... Picture a dark green canoe silently gliding alongside of a riverbank to snap a close-up of a Jersey cow that is bending through the reeds to drink from the creek...and that is me...the crocodile that hunts with a camera.. (-:

Later,
Croc
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