Greetings from Ontario Canada

Often times it is people burning leaves on windy days or young kids who think it is funny, not thinking ahead to the danger it poses. Sometimes it turns out to be someone on the volunteer fire department crew that loves fighting fires. There was a guy in Florida, that went around starting fires, just so he could fight them. He went to jail for a few years over that one. Many times it can be a piece of glass that the sun hits and mix in dry leaves and it equals fire.

 

Other than the frustrating moments did you have a good time camping?

 

I was hoping for your sake the camping area would have been spared. By the way I found a craft idea that involved teaching scouts rescue breathing. Do they still teach things like that at scout camp? My brother attended in the sixty's and his troop made this craft project. Wondered about Canada, thou....

 

So how long till you get back out in the woods? I went for a short walk in the woods on Tuesday, behind my house and the forest was so peaceful I had a really hard time turning back. I wanted to explore more and look for fern fiddleheads andl mushrooms. But then I took a much longer trip over to Red Bridge State Park and took pictures of the water and the mountains. It was beautiful.

 

Did you see the pictures I put up from my trip to Kinzua (Red Bridge)?? Would look more interesting with a nice dog like Reese in the pictures. Anyways the water is really high now and that pleased me as the last time I was over there this end of the reservoir was drained, thus a big mud hole. The waters are filled with big bass and other fish. This is one place we might go camping this summer.
For now short hikes behind my house will have to do.

 

I use an older type camera that records the pictures on floppy disks. as long as I can keep my old computer running, I will be able to use the camera. I have lots of photo's and slides, and stored photo's on disks & floppies. But it seems there is always something new to add to the collection.

 

I don't know about that I think your pictures are very interesting and fun. The ones you put up of your friends in the boat and of your dog are very good. Share some more of them. I put mine in the nature topic, I have another to share of an albino robin. He has been hanging around my yard for the last week. I think there is a nest close by.

 

It is easy to tell I have been with it the last few days. Each time I signed in and read your post I thought I like that cheery campfire being displayed. And then my tired brain would say I wonder what the ND stands for, and finally tonight it registered it is your site name. I think I need a long vacation.

It has seemed that way here for the last several years, that more wild animals are coming into town looking for easy handouts. Do you suppose it is (global warming). Ha! Ha!
But I do wonder if all the logging and more gas companies in the woods is causing them to look for free lunch and not look for food in the forests.

 

Any time a wild animal attacks or kills people it is of great concern. I read a story about a mountain lion that had killed people hiking or on dirt bikes as they went along a certain rocky ledge area in a canyon out west several years ago. It was an old cat that did not have the ability to hunt other animals and so it started preying on hikers and bikers.
But as you say in the wild it is important to stay alert and remember the animals are wild and not to infringe upon them as if they are tame creatures.

 

In other words never sneak up on Northern Dancer, in the dark, or you might get hit with bear spray or a screamer whistle in your ear, beat with a walking staff or pelted by a sling shot. Luckily his knife is used for cooking. Oh, watch out for the pile of rocks by the tent door and getting blinded by a high power beam flashlight. Otherwise, it is quite safe in camping in that area.