Pete and I hanging out at Grundy LakeTwo weekends ago, i had once again the priveledge of heading up north to spend a weekend at Grundy Lake Provincial Park about four hours north of Hamilton. My whole family was coming together for a time of much needed rest and relaxation in the wonderful wild northlands of Ontario. Mom and Dad, Rach, Mike and Peter arrived on Wednesday and set the whole place up - the familiar blue haze of the tarps prevailed over the site as i pulled up on Thursday afternoon, relieved to be up there instead of in the city worrying whether my offer on a house had gone through or not. It was so nice to see my family and spend time with the people i love the most in the world! I've put a few pics up here of our weekend so you have a little taste of our vacation. Enjoy!
Arriving at Grundy Lake after a long drive
You never know what you might find hanging out in the trees!Rachel's shoes got a little wet and this apparently was the way to dry them!
Pete and Opa reading Seek and Slide in the Garden, his favorite book!
Two blue-eyed beauties!
An amazing sunset! Pastor Van Olst talked today about seeing God's handiwork
Pete and Opa reading Seek and Slide in the Garden, his favorite book!
Two blue-eyed beauties!
An amazing sunset! Pastor Van Olst talked today about seeing God's handiwork wherever we are and I truly saw His glory in this sky!
Pete and Oma hanging out at the beach, enjoying a dip of the toes in the water!
Mike and Rach took me on a fishing expedition to the distant Bucke Lake, nearly a half hour journey through weeds and swamp land, trekking over beaver dams and not "looking at the lights", tracked by vicious mosquitos and deer flies who seemed to have ceaseless appetites for human flesh and hoping against hope that there would be a lake at the end of the journey as promised. Mike caught himself a pike after a dramatic wrestling match and the joy on his face was cool to see! We towed Ugg back to camp and had him for dinner and he sure was good! Fun times!
A magnificent sunset!
I did some drive-along shootings of the awesome skies that i saw along the way up, there was some dramatic weather and some interesting meteorological phenomena.... some strange sights in the northern skies... i knew there was a constellation called Crab but here was a lobster!
Another great sight...it's amazing i didn't drive off the road as i admired
Pete and Oma hanging out at the beach, enjoying a dip of the toes in the water! 
Mike and Rach took me on a fishing expedition to the distant Bucke Lake, nearly a half hour journey through weeds and swamp land, trekking over beaver dams and not "looking at the lights", tracked by vicious mosquitos and deer flies who seemed to have ceaseless appetites for human flesh and hoping against hope that there would be a lake at the end of the journey as promised. Mike caught himself a pike after a dramatic wrestling match and the joy on his face was cool to see! We towed Ugg back to camp and had him for dinner and he sure was good! Fun times! 
A magnificent sunset!I did some drive-along shootings of the awesome skies that i saw along the way up, there was some dramatic weather and some interesting meteorological phenomena.... some strange sights in the northern skies... i knew there was a constellation called Crab but here was a lobster!Another great sight...it's amazing i didn't drive off the road as i admired the skies along the way!
So that's a little sampling of our vacation... just whets my appetite for more next year!
5 comments:
I drove past your new house and its still standing - thought I should check :)
that last photo of the sky is pretty spectacular - for want of a better word
I agree with Joyce on that last photo... but it seems to have been taken from the wrong side of the road? Be careful there, honey!
You sure have a knack with that camera, Danielle! I'm sad that I came the weekend after you - it's been a long, long time since I've had a chance to chat with either you or Rachel. I was up this past weekend...and stilled love it as much as ever! :)
Uh oh! One more day, and you haven't posted for a whole month! You'd better watch out for the Blog police. Not that I'd send them after you or anything, but they might find out somehow and then you're in trouble...
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Rachel
This stupid blog is having some issues with me lately... i wrote up a whole post but it wouldn't let me post it... grrr... so i'm not totally guilty of abandoning it!
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