Night Time Path to the Guest House

More Fern Trails

Bark Textures

Douglas Fir, Hemlock and Cedar

Criss Cross – Maples & Moss

Fern Trails – 2 photos

The ferns just keep getting better on our walking trails through the forest

Bursting

A live cedar growing inside an old growth cedar stump

Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus) Foliage

A wild berry shrub that is native to our area. The fruit resembles a small raspberry. Not a favourite of mine as the berry doesn’t have a lot of flavour, is on the dry side and tends to crumble. Very plentiful though and a sure sign of Spring. Also known as Red Cap or Cap Berry.

Firewood 2022

I spent the last couple of weeks getting next Winter’s firewood sorted. I found five trees, four alders and a dogwood that were standing but dead so I felled them. I also had some wild cherry and hemlock rounds that I bucked last Fall under a tarp in the woods. After splitting and stacking them I ended up with 2 cords of wood – a pile 8 feet x 8 feet x 4 feet. We heat our house with a wood stove and if our Winter is relatively normal that should get us comfortably through the cold.

Bracken Fern Unfurling

Swordfern Unfurling