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April Snowfall.

05-Apr-16

http://busingers.ca/tag/julien-proulx/.git/HEAD We returned to the cabin and found spring just beginning in the mountains.  Down in the Rondout Valley the hepatica (H. acutiloba) bloomed March 30; the bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) the following day; April 2nd saw spring-beauty (Claytonia carolina) bloom on Wildcat Mountain.  And then on April 3rd the snow came, in the middle of the […]

Bear Tracks in the Snow.

16-Jan-14

Val-d'Or Someone is awake and hasn’t eaten in a month and a half…

The Elusive Friend.

08-Mar-13

For most of this winter my cabin has been surrounded, continually, by the tracks of a four-footed carnivore – whom I have yet to see in the flesh.  He criss-crosses the property, sometimes crossing my lawn multiple times per night.  I have seen his tracks go under my extension and through the middle of my […]

Tracking the Wildcat.

04-Feb-13

Sometimes I hate the fact that I don’t wake up about an hour before dawn, when all the animals are doing interesting things.  I woke up yesterday morning and went to the spring for water, when I saw an unusual set of very clear prints in the snow.  All the local carnivores (except the bears) […]

A Winter Day.

02-Feb-13

The day started sunny and cold and bright, good woodcutting weather, and I ended up bringing in something like nine bags of wood today.  This is a good day’s work.  I split some black cherry, which is so beautiful that I often feel a little bad about burning it.  It supposedly takes the knife and […]

Winter in the Cabin.

01-Dec-12

For the past week it has been consistently cold and wintry here in the cabin.  There is snow on the ground, and I have to walk in from the road; my dirt driveway is now closed off.  Snowshoes are not required yet, but snow that has fallen is starting to pile up.  I spend some […]

Snow Indeed.

28-Oct-11

Snow!

27-Oct-11

We’re supposed to have snow tonight.  Probably nothing like the 16″ we got on October 28th three years ago, but we’ll see.

Winter, winter, winter.

03-Feb-11

New Year’s.

31-Dec-10

Summit of Red Hill, late December 2010.