If A Tree Falls In The Forest...

...does anybody hear it? Or "If a person celebrates a birthday during a pandemic, does it actually count???" Dave's birthday was yesterday and normally, we try to have a fun experience to mark birthdays. You may remember that last year we were in San Juan, before leaving on our Disney Cruise. (You can read about that birthday here.) The year before that, we celebrated at Blue Jays' WinterFest and Dave was able to meet his favourite baseball player ever! (You can read those posts here and here.) This year, well, we all know what this year has looked like...

Our province is currently under a fairly strict lock down so we can't get together with anyone nor are we really allowed to leave our houses (except for "essential trips.") Since exercise is considered "essential" we went for a winter hike at a trail we had heard about which sounded interesting.

The trail is called "The GeoTime Trail" and it has signposts which explain geological history in our area (and beyond). It was a little cold, and the signs are quite extensive, so I took pictures of each sign so the kids could read them at their leisure.

I enjoyed taking a ton of pictures. Some of my nature pictures are inspired by my blog friend, Joanne, who posts a lot of pictures from their winter hikes in the woods. (You can read Joanne's blog here.)

We found a few trees which had fallen over and enjoyed a slight detour to play on them awhile.

We had tried doing this trail walk a few weeks ago but it was pretty much under ice. This time it was still really icy but none of us fell. We all agreed we want to try and do this trail again sometime when it's less icy. Sam needed help from Dave to get up a few hills (and so did I!) and Rachel had her own way of getting down icy hills :)

More pictures of nature close up. I really enjoyed playing around with my camera and taking pictures!

Did I mention that Sam and Rachel were excited about reading the signs?!?! They actually want to take all the pictures of the signs and make them into a photo book. Hahaha!

We were mostly in the middle of a forest, or walking around the outskirts of it, but we were also in the middle of a subdivision, so we had views like this gorgeous frozen water on one side but on the other side were the backyards of people who live in the subdivision.

I loved this bridge, and the creek it went over.

This was a really fun day in icy woods and I'm so glad we were able to do this.