Nature Friday - Early Fall

Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting this event.

Here are some shots from fall from this week.

The last of the sunflowers 

What?

 Man, tell Lady I don't want to have my picture taken.

Fine - what do you want?

Are we done yet?

Wordless Wednesday - Welcome

 

Travel Tuesday - 49 hours in Thunder Bay

 Today is our last instalment of 49 hours in Thunder Bay. After a wonderful wedding, we still had until 2:30 the following afternoon to explore Thunder Bay.

After breakfast we went for a walk by the harbour area of the city. 85% of the cargo that leaves Thunder Bay by ship and train is grain. It is a beautiful place to walk, even on a cloudy day.

Late summer bloom

Ying and Yang

The old train station

Faces on a building

After a stroll we headed out to Kakabeka Falls. This is the second largest waterfall in Ontario (only smaller than Niagara) and we both thought, even late in the season, one of the prettiest falls we have ever seen. 

At the falls we did a hike, know as the portage hike. It follows the trail that the Voyageurs would have used to portage around the falls on their way to the Rendez-Vous at Fort William. 

Our lost stop was a visit up to McKay Mountain. We didn't have time to hike up the mountain, but we did enjoy the slightly foggy view from near the top. 

The top of McKay Mountain

Then it was time to return our car, go through security and wait for our delayed flights. 

We really enjoyed our brief visit to Thunder Bay and hope you did too! 

Mischief Monday - Bigger Path

 Dear pals,

Last week Callie's man had to drive a machine through the path between our houses. They have been redoing their driveway and a vehicle got stuck on the grass and he had to bring a machine through our yard to pull it out. 

Big path

This has made our path between homes much bigger.

Lady says just because it is bigger doesn't mean we should be going to visit more. She spent a lot of time last week bringing us home.

It smells better over here!

This would be ok, expect one day, Phod tried to see Callie's man while he was working in a machine. He saw him and everyone was safe and he thought it was funny. 

Lady, I was just trying to help

Maybe this week we will do a better job at staying in our yard.

your pals, Lee and Phod who think they have a really big yard. 

FFF Nature Friday - Flowers

 Thanks to Rosy and Sunny for hosting Nature Friday and for Aunty-Yam for hosting FFF.

Again, the Lady tried to convince one of us to pose with her sunflowers.

Sorry Lady, not happening, got things to do

At least the flowers are more cooperative

For some variety, a wild flower that is growing all around our yard.

Now a FFF by Lee

Put the camera down

Truly be in the moment

Smell the fresh fall air

Fall Work Begins

 Sunday marked the first official day of autumn. This means the lazy days of summer are behind us. This is hard to believe because we have had summer temperatures. Now the work to start to prepare for winter begins. 

Our people are so lucky to have us to help.

We can help keep an eye on the fire (still slowly, slowly burning the old deck).

We can point out where the leaves need to be raked. 

We can ensure the Man isn't raking up anything we want to eat. 

We are really big helps.