A Very Happy Mother's Day

Today I had a very Happy Mother's Day with my favourite people. We started the day with a long walk to and in "The Woods" that are near our house and it was a relaxing trek with many little surprises along the way.
Here's the Dashman with his trusty walking stick ready to tackle the world.
In lieu of a big bouquet of store bought flowers I got this beautiful sight - thousands and thousands of blooming trilliums.
But the most exciting part of the walk was searching for local wildlife - we saw birds, squirrels, ducks and four snakes**, which through the help of the Internet we have determined are Northern Ribbon Snakes. Of course the kids were really exciting about seeing them and quite brave - Ben and Christine even got close enough to one to have it snap it's jaws at them. We discovered that Molly the dog is an exceptionally good Snake Hunter and was able to sniff them out quite quickly.

Here's a shot of Christine posing with a pink Trillium she was excited to discover, we were also able to find burgundy Trilliums as well.

Finally one non-Mother's Day shot. Anyone who knows Dash knows that he is obsessed with vehicles of all kinds - and firetrucks are one of his favourites. Earlier this week Ben took Christine and Dash to our local firehouse to have a peep at the trucks and found one of the big engines out on the driveway. So here's a shot of two very happy kids on one very big Firetruck.

**No snakes were harmed in the making of this blog