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Hawthorne Park

October 10, 2010 Maurice Leave a comment

We went for a short walk around Hawthorne Park. Pam’s recovering nicely, and she’s eager to get back out into the sunshine. We had an incredible rain storm here on Saturday, but today (Sunday) was very nice, sunny and warm.

Max gets a kick out of Hawthorne Park because it has a large duck pond, and he always gets crazy, trying to chase them. After his dunking in Green Timbers, we were wondering if he was going to dive in after the ducks at this park. He chased them, but he didn’t enter the water! Guess he learned his lesson!

They are doing a lot of work on Hawthorne Park. There are a lot of paths blocked off by fencing, and they seem to be adding crushed rock to the paths. It will be really nice when they are done, because some of the paths are quite muddy in the winter rainy season.

They have put in a “dry” river bed, with these large metal sculptures, in various colors, of cattails. I’m not sure if they intend to bring water to the river bed, but it’s looking good so far.

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Max IN the lake!

September 22, 2010 Maurice 1 Comment

Here is a little video we took with the new Panasonic camera. We were at Green Timbers park, and we’ve often gone to the little lake there. Max always charges the ducks in the water, but he has never actually put his foot in the water. As soon as he feels the damp, he chickens out.

Well, today was different! As you can see from the picture, he splashed a little into the water, so I started the camera, and this is what happened next! This Panasonic also has a much better audio capability than the old Olympus camera. It records in DOLBY sound, and you can definitely hear the difference.

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New camera shots

September 16, 2010 Maurice Leave a comment

We’ve picked up a new camera for our yearly Caribbean excursion, and we’re test driving it around town this week. After doing a lot of research we decided on the Panasonic Lumix TS2, which has a lot of features, along with an underwater mode.

We went up to Tynehead Regional park hoping to see some salmon in the streams, but no salmon have shown up yet. Not sure why – I thought they would be here by now.

It was a nice fall day, warm and a little humid. The picture of Pam and Max was in the offleash section of the park.

The camera has an interesting macro mode, allowing you to be within just a couple centimeters of item and still focus well. I want to experiment with that, so that hopefully our fish pictures will be better this year when we are in Aruba and Curacao.

There is a High Definition movie mode that is really amazing. I’m looking for a converter to get them on the web in high-def, but I haven’t found a good one yet. When I do, I’ll put a movie up. It really is a remarkable feature of the camera! The movies are truly amazing.

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New Look

September 4, 2010 Maurice 2 Comments

When we were in Calgary for my Dad’s 80th, my sister gave us a little present for Max.

Max had been staying with Anna-Maria, our wonderful dog sitter while we drove to Calgary. She had taken him for a walk and he kinda overdid it, so we haven’t taken him out for a couple days. We’ve let him recuperate at home, but yesterday he seemed ready and eager to get out and about.

We took him down to our “fave park of the minute,” Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest, and we took a spin around Chickadee Loop trail.

Doesn’t he look sharp in his new outfit? I think he was getting tired of the green scarf! haha It’s a cool kinda scarf – it has a plastic snap clasp like a lot of dog collars, so it’s even easier to “tie on.”

Max says “woof woof!” Which apparently translates to “Thanks eh? Makes me look sharp!”

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Dogwood offleash park

August 24, 2010 Maurice Leave a comment

Here is Max at Dogwood Park. He makes dog friends very easily and this little guy was interested in giving Max a little run. He’s doing well these days. He can run and jump with the best of them. He still has a slight weakness in his left front paw, but basically he’s back to normal. He can do all the things he needs to do.

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Return to Sunnyside

May 20, 2010 Maurice 1 Comment

Pam and I both love Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest in South Surrey, so today we headed back for another tour. It’s a great space, so very neat to wander among these large trees. It was not very crowded so that made it even nicer. We came across only 3 or 4 other people, all walking their dogs!

The park is the source of Elgin Creek, which runs all the way to the ocean, but we have not been able to find the headwaters yet. We took the Douglas Fir trail, then branched off to the Moss Trail. We finally got back on Chickadee loop trail and back to the parking lot. The Douglas Fir and Moss trails are narrow, wide enough for one person only really. It’s a very neat walk, the trees and bushes brush against you as you meander down the hills. There are lots of berries coming into season, and Pam loves to stop for a quick snack!

Max is able to be off leash here, since there are so few people in the park. He loves to try to get the squirrels, but they just laugh at him. This joker pictured here had a nut in his hands, and plopped himself down on this branch and proceeded to drop the casings down on Max’s head! Quite a funny little guy. The park is full of them, prancing around the trails, inspiring Max to give chase.

It’s a great way to spend a couple hours!

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Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest

May 12, 2010 Maurice Leave a comment

Today we took a walk in a park called Sunnyside Acres Urban Forest in South Surrey, basically in White Rock. It was a really cool park, with nice trails, and a walking itinerary provided for you at the main parking lot. The site was logged early in this century, but has been naturally re-forested, as opposed to being re-planted.

The trees are quite enormous, and offered a wonderful natural walk through the trails. There are lots of paths that have numbered sign posts on them, and each of the sign posts corresponds to a pamphlet that you can pick up at the entrance. It tells you what might be growing there, and what to look for. It is a very well signed park, and really quite a nice experience.

Pam was quite impressed with the size of the ferns! They have a wonderful vibrant green, quite different from a lot of other ferns growing around the Lower Mainland. The color is a brighter, lighter shade of green. It was quite striking.

Also pictured here is a trillium! It’s quite late in the year for the trillium to still be in bloom, so we were quite surprised, but pleased to see one! We had been in Tynehead Park the other day and walked up Trillium Trail, but there were none left in bloom. Sunnyside had a Trillium Trail as well, and here was the last bloom of the season! Nice!