The Easter bunny must have heard my complaints about not being visited by him, as he finally turned up with a haul of chocolate (and Twisties).
He’s back on my Christmas card list now.
(Oh, and meanwhile, the Canmore bunnies have been going wild over the last month – they’re all over town, and even a few families of baby bunnies around)
A run of nice 17-19oC days, then BAM! You wake up and everything is covered in snow.
The Lady MacDonald trail had been re-opened, so I decided to head up there on Sunday. No-one to hike with, but it’s usually a pretty busy trail… then for the first hour of hiking I didn’t meet a single person. It was beginning to get a little spooky, and I was singing the Shoo Bears song (surprisingly similar to the Shoo Fly song… which apparently has a chorus, and completely different lines to those I know of, but anyway), and wielding my cougar-hitting stick, just in case.
People started appearing as I got higher though, and just as I was about to hit the final ridge to the summit, a group warned about a bear that was ‘just on the other side’. It must have wandered off, for I didn’t catch even a glimpse of it.
Lovely warm day for hiking – singlets and shorts and a dusty trail in the sun.
Airline tickets are now booked for Christmas in Australia! I’ve had three Christmas’ in a row in Canada, so my memories of Australian Christmas have become vague and clouded over time. However, I think it might look something like this:
