This was it, the big walk in which we would reach the Ottawa end of the Rideau Trail. Miss 8 had chosen sparkling peach-grape juice and we had little plastic wine glasses for a big celebration when we reached the marker at the end. First, though, we watched the ducks. Mr. Mallard was not [...]
Rideau Trail
Rideau Trail Walk #14
We walked the Rideau Trail along a treacherous stretch of the Ottawa River where the water is too turbulent to freeze. Although it was unseasonably warm, the wind coming off the river was cold and chilly. I wore a wool hat and earmuffs, although some of my children kept insisting it was warm…and Mr. 15 [...]
A Woodpecker Walk
Our eleventh Rideau Trail walk, the longest yet, covered snowy terrain through woods, along a railway, and into a residential area. The theme of this walk seemed to be woodpeckers, but we noticed a lot of other interesting things, such as this tree. We found fairly large skeleton with extra bumps on the spine toward [...]
Rideau Trail Walks 9 and 10
Because of rain, we did not take any pictures of our our ninth Rideau Trail walk. That is too bad, because it was probably the most scenic section of all our walks, with a little lake, iced over, and a mysterious log cabin covered with pine branches. Hopefully we’ll go back someday with a camera. Two days [...]
Rideau Trail Walk #8
Although we?ve been walking the Rideau Trail, I haven?t been posting about it. Here are pictures of a long trek we made at the end of November. Although most winter landscapes have drab colors, sumac adds a brilliant splash of red. The other splash of color came from ugly Keep Out signs for an adjacent [...]
Weekly Wrap-Up: Mostly Writing
Miss 12 started her NaNoWriMo novel on Monday. She writes a few hours a day, with a Huguenot history book on her lap. Occasionally she makes forays onto Wikipedia to learn more about French geography and history. When she found the NaNoWriMo word count goals for different grades she was shocked to see that her [...]
