More Carman

These are Robin's pictures of our Carman walk.

Getting organized.

This is the local museum where we parked. The museum was not open.

The first footbridge.

Ice on the river.

This would be a great place for a picnic in the summer.

Harold explaining about trees to us. Notice how we are paying close attention.

The girls going on ahead.

This was a gnarly old tree that looked as if the woodpeckers loved it.

In front of the tall grass.

Lori showing an extra touch of blue.

Another bridge.

Here is the whole story of the drunken birds.

Just to the lower left of this picture there is a brown spot in the water that was either a beaver or an otter. We didn't see more than the top of its head.

This duck was swimming and breaking the ice. Time to go south duckie.

You can see the clock tower in the background.

There are some huge trees on the golf course. Some are cottonwood and some are huge oaks.

The lunch. It was so delicious after our long walk in the fresh air.

Second Carman Hike

The best hikes have footbridges. Since the Boyne River winds through Carman there are several bridges on the path.  This was  the first one and is brand new.

The Boyne River had a thin coating of ice on it.

Even in winter the colours are beautiful.

There are several of these benches placed at scenic viewpoints.

Yuriko and I leading the way since we already walked this path.

Whoever says hiking isn't a barrel of laughs wasn't there today. Behind us is a piece of tallgrass prairie that has been saved. It's hard to imagine that the whole area was once covered with this grass.

Not sure what we were all looking at here but it must have been interesting.
 

This signboard has lots of information about things you might see along the trail.

Here's a map of the trail. It's about 8 km long.

Who knew that birds could be alcoholics?? The rest of the article said that the birds had the livers of advanced alcoholics.

The Boyne River meanders all around the town.

There were these strange scrape marks on some of the trees. At first we thought it was caused by deer sharpening their antlers but the tree in the background had the marks so high up that it would have to have been an agile leaping deer.

This is part of a seniors' residence.

Of course, every hike has to include food. Yuriko supplied tea and homemade buns.

So very delicious.

Harold and Lori and I stopped at Boston Pizza in Morden on the way home.

Carman Hike

Yuriko and I did a session of restorative Yoga and followed that with coffee and a pastry at the Carman Bakery. We then went for a hike on the Carman walking path. It has several footbridges (my favorite) and an amazing number of trees. Half of the time it was hard to imagine that we were walking in town.

Lots of crunchy fallen leaves.

Yuriko at one of the bridges.

It was a chilly day but by this point we were starting to warm up.

The Boyne River is frozen over but not strong enough to walk on I'm sure.

This plant was still  green in spite of the below freezing temperatures for the past few days.

There were a lot of trees with the bark scraped off like this. Deer sharpening their horns?

We finished off  with Robin's delicious home made tortillas with  black bean and beef sauce.