you can call me nature girl!

so now that summer is finally here, the husband has begun his weekend jaunts up into the mountains and he usually drags me with him. he has a penchant for gut wrenching goat trail roads where one slip of the wheel and we will be careening down the mountainside to certain death. i white knuckle it up most of the time and refuse to look. thankfully, yesterdays little adventure had quite civilized roads. we even got behind a water truck that was spraying the roads to keep the dust down. (does this make sense? most years we are on water restrictions and can't water our lawns very much but they can water a road?) i'm confused!

we went up to myra canyon provincial park to hike the trestles. okay, hike is the wrong verb (adjective?) we strolled to the trestles. i even had on semi appropriate shoes for once, but i forgot to bring water. we went to the first trestle which is about a kilometer away and i was done. that's my exercise for this week. there was a little kiosk explaining about what kind of wildlife we might observe. cougars, coyotes and of course the very dangerous gophers and marmots. we didn't see any of these exciting creatures.

                                                     crikey!!! we saw a cow!!!
the views were incredible and the devastation from the fires of "03" were still very evident. the burnt out trees looked like a ghost forest. eerily sad and beautiful at the same time.

                                   

                                  standing on the trestle we had the most amazing views

usually my nature girl tales are much more eventful. but summer has just begun. maybe next time we will see
something a little wilder than a cow! tho' i do have to admit that cows do freak me out. they just stand there and stare at you. very creepy. don't you think?