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Adventures in Québec: Day 3

November 11, 2012 //

The highlight of our second full day in Hudson, apart from hanging out with most excellent family, was a walk in a wooded area near my cousin’s house. We saw sugar maples and much beauty.

Hudson is blessed with many lovely parks. The trails in this one make for great cross-country skiing in the winter.

Chipmunk! He’s blurry as he wouldn’t sit still!

A tap in a sugar maple missed when they were removed last season.

Very pretty little creek reflects the perfect stillness of the wood.

Not sure what this pretty ground cover is.

Tags autumn, Hudson Quebec, Quebec, sugar maples, walk in the woods

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Autumn Colour

October 19, 2012 //

Here are a few random shots of the autumn colour around Beacon Hill Park.

View of Saint Ann’s Academy from Southgate.

Rusty tree gate.

Small burst of red.

Tags autumn, Beacon Hill Park, seasons, trees, Victoria BC

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October, My Favourite Month

October 1, 2012 //

October 1 and another sunny autumn day begins. We’re having the most beautiful weather. Yesterday we went to Ross Bay Cemetery for a guided walking tour. The Old Cemeteries Society hosts tours every Sunday, usually at Ross Bay, but sometimes at other historic graveyards like Pioneer Square downtown. Yesterday’s tour coincided with the 150th Anniversary of the Incorporation of the City of Victoria Symposium. Several actors in period dress portrayed people of importance from 1862 who are buried at Ross Bay. The Society uses the funds it raises from memberships and tours for materials to upkeep the historic graveyards. This year, we were told, they were able to repaint all the wrought iron at the Ross Bay Cemetery. Their volunteers also do research, gravesite cataloguing and tombstone cleaning.

Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC; a beautiful and peaceful place.

Tags 1862, autumn, City of Victoria 150th Anniversary, historical, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria BC, walking tour

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Beginnings of Autumn Colour

September 29, 2012 //

We have had a very warm September and it has definitely been a long extension to summer. But in the last week or so there has been a crispness in the air and a bit of colour in the leaves. Our walk this week produced these shots:

Our lovely Inner Harbour.

We were pleased to see that the bright orange plastic fencing that had adorned the left side of this path for most of the year had been removed. Beacon Hill Park, Victoria BC.