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June 2008

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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Princess Angela

Angela had a school project where she had to describe the day in the life of a medieval person. She picked a medieval princess, part of the project was they had to dress like that person. Here she is in here princess costume.

Angela  

Monday, June 02, 2008

Down East

I'm down in Nova Scotia this week, the start of a busy summer at work. Follow along at From Here To There. **Note: Updated a few more days

Halifax Harbour  

Friday, June 06, 2008

Claudia at Camp

Claudia is off to Brownie camp this weekend. They are camping at Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area.

Claudia  

I got home from the airport, changed and then we were all in the van to take her to camp.

Girls  

Here she is before we left.

Claudia: Photo by Gillian  

On our way back Susan spotted this deer in the bush at the side of the road.

Deer: Photo by Angela  

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Humber Arboretum Class Trip

I went with Claudia's class to the Humber Arboretum at Humber College on Thursday. We spent the day walking through the meadows, woodlots and exploring pond life. This is the New Centre for Urban Ecology.

Humber Arboretum

This cardinal was singing near the river.

Oriole

Our guide holding some fox scat on a stick. The foxes have returned to the area after a brief absence.

Fox scat

A reminder that we're still in the city.

City reminder

A beaver lodge at the side of the river.

Beaver lodge

We saw some mallard ducks, this guy was swimming in the river.

Mallard

Then he hopped up on the rock and shook himself off.

Duck

Duck shake

While we were looking at the ducks, a family of Canada geese came swimming up and the walked up to the pathway.

Canada geese

There were eight gosling's under the watchful eye of Mom and Dad.

Goslings

Claudia and the geese.

Claudia

We saw a raccoon sleeping in a tree, that is his leg hanging out of the tree.

Racoon

This was the nest of a Cooper's Hawk, you can see the tail hanging out. The guides think the babies hatched the day before because it never left the nest all day.

Hawk nest

The back side of the Ecocentre.

Eco building

They had a couple of turtles in a tank inside the building.

Turtle

The other turtle.

Other turtle

The kids enjoyed finding different bugs in the pond.

Pond

The weather was great, it was a neat place to visit, we'll have to go back with the rest of the family and explore.

 

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Claudia's Birthday Party

Today was Claudia's birthday party with some of her friends from school. It is a little overdue, but at the end of May we were busy and Gillian was at camp the one weekend. Claudia was just as excited two weeks later. Here she is opening her presents.

Opening presents

A new box of Perler beads.

Perler beads

Claudia and her friends.

Friends

Cake time.

Cake time

Blowing candles

Butterfly

This butterfly was hanging around our lilac bush.

Butterfly

Butterfly

A flash movie of the butterfly (1.7 mb).

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Saturday, June 28, 2008

Out East Again

I was in Longue-Pointe-De-Mingan from the 24th-28th, making a site visit. It was my first time to the site. See some of the photos of the area at my work blog From Here To There.

Mingan  

Early Fireworks

There were some early firework celebrations on the court behind us. This year they were pretty good.

Fireworks  

Fireworks  

Fireworks  

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