January Outdoor Life

As we near the end of this month of January in a somewhat lockdown due to Covid I can't help but notice all the gifts creation has blessed me with in the outdoors. I love being outside and spent most of my childhood playing in the woods and fields across from our house. It was a place to run and be free and use our imagination. 

I do my best to share my love of the outdoors with my family and friends. I want to explore and find new places and new things to see. 

During this month I wasn't able to travel anywhere but there were many new things to find along the local trails.

 

There were cold sunny days, rainy days and days that felt like summer. This life on the island really couldn't get much better!

 

I managed a couple of trips to Bright Angel park with the boys to check out life along the Koksilah River,

bubbling blowing at the playground with the kids and many hikes down the Cowichan and Trans Canada trails.

Each time we go out we always find something new to see and share with each other. There are always smiles and laughter and moments of intrigue. 

Creation, people, trees, fungi,

insects, birds and plants, they are so amazing and wonderfully created.

 

I truly hope that my grandchildren and some day my great grandchildren will be able to explore the woods and forests as I do and get the same enjoyment that I have found by being out in nature. There is no better medicine for one's soul than to be outdoors especially when you can share it with family and friends.

When You Can't Party

 Even when you can't party to celebrate someone turning 85 you can still gather and share in a little fun. It's good for the elderly and it's good for the young and all those in between. 

So even though we couldn't really celebrate my Dad turning 85 we did have a little fun outdoors to mark the very special occasion. 

We all just have to do what we can safely do to make the most of out of life and each day that we are gifted. 

Happy New Year 2021!

 What a great way to start the new year. Up in Comox with my daughter and family we managed to get out and go snow shoeing up Mount Washington. It was a little cold when we headed out but we were blessed with sunshine and blue skies.

I so love being out in the snowy mountains. Everything is so bright and every year it looks so different. 

The snow on the trails and the crispness as you walk. 

The kids were great getting carried in packs and there rosy cheeks and smiles just warmed my heart. We did the easy green loop which took us an hour so perfect time to be out with young ones.

Hopefully I will get out once more this year when it warms up a bit but if not I am glad I was able to start this year off up in the snowy hills with snow!!