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Snow and cold, round two
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Snow and cold, round two We hit the trail about two fifteen today. PD stayed home. It was nine degrees and quite windy, and she admonished us no end to stay out of the wind and not too stay out too long. She feels Gracie needs a coat in this weather. I tell her Gracie has a coat. While we're gone, look up "Labrador" on the interweb, and for good measure "Newfoundland", which is where Labrador Retrievers were actually first bred. Gracie loves weather. Hot weather, warm weather, cool weather, bone chillingly cold weather. And if it's also wet, so much the better. She bites at the ice on Asylum Lake trying to get at the water. We found one car in the little parking area when we got there, and the owner and his Alf were just leaving. Alf is the excitable type, barking and bitching, dodging and weaving, growling. He makes Gracie look like the Dalai Lama. She is all sweetness and light. Her enthusiasm for life, and exuberance in pursuing it, are becoming legend in the preserve. She's a wild thing, but in a Cyndi Lauper kind of way. Girls just want to have fun. We walked the Poop Walk, and in short order I was overdressed. I wore a wool sweater and a hoodie but I should have worn my Carhartt jacket instead. It's more durable but not as thick and warm as the hoodie and I worked up a sweat and had to unzip to ventilate. I took off my ski mask in a quarter mile or so- it was getting hot in there. Gracie was a little impatient with my wardrobe malfunctions. We came to hike, so let's hike, already. We took the trail north by the swamp and marsh along the west fork of the creek when we got to the turnoff. It's a crossing of two paths that's deeply eroded by off road bicycles and there's a steep pitch to the intersection that's hard to stay upright on when it's wet or icy. I didn't fall. The first hundred feet or so of the trail north have been cut deeply by the bikes- three or four feet deep, but it levels out after that, and I put her long lead on there, and took a couple of pictures. Taking pictures today was a bit of a pain without PD there to hold Gracie's lead. Gracie is impatient with picture taking and we argued about it the whole hike. I would make her wait and sit and she grew tired of that right quick and took off on her own, ruining a couple of shots by jerking my hands. So we walked the same circuit we've been taking for the last few days, but in reverse. The creek channel is still open and flowing- it's only been cold just yesterday and today. The rest of the marsh is frozen and snow covered. The seedlings I photographed are buried in snow now. I watched for them but couldn't spot them. It's only three inches, but they are very young and three inches is enough. Gracie did a lot of mouse hunting in the snow, but she caught nothing. She did get frozen whiskers, just like me. We looked a lot alike coming home. On the return we passed Gracie's buddy Rocky, an old border collie, and his owner, a sweet woman who reminds me of a farm wife. Her speech is spare and to the point, and she comes out with Rocky to ward off cabin fever, and to just be outside. Many of the trails we followed today were trackless. We only saw the two hikers, one heading out and the other going in. It was a good day.         Become a member now and get a free tote bag. |
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Thank you! The pictures do not do it justice. If there were a heaven it would look like these woods. And there is a clean smell. It's as if you're getting the oxygen right from the source. Which, OK, you are. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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No bears, that I know of. Coyotes, deer, turkey, foxes...all of that. They are safe from hunters here. This area- the Preserve, and the Boy Scout camp- are fifteen hundred acres more or less of wild land. Civilization is encroaching on it though, lately. Portage, where I live, and Texas Township, across the street from me, and where the Preserve is located, have been the fastest growing areas around Kalamazoo. This is good and bad. From my perspective, urban expansion is all bad. There are too many people competing for the earth's resources, and it ain't gonna let up. But the people moving to these two areas are rich yuppies, and once they move in they want everyone else to stay out, so as not to spoil the pristine natural world that they despoiled by building their mini mansion in the pristine natural world. So, they will vote conservation, now that they have THEIRS. Northern Michigan is remote. We are not. We are threatened from all sides. There is still open land, but if people don't start practicing some kind of restraint, i.e. birth control, it will all go to hell. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Beautiful photos 
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Beautiful photos Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Hahaha! Yeah- me too! Thank you beautiful! We have the same goal but we are at loggerheads on how to achieve it. The hike is very much about Gracie. It's about me too. We like our time together in the wild. She wants to go, go, go. I want to chill. I chill watching her go. She is all about now! Let's do it now! Today is a very good day! If there is a finer thing on this earth than a young dog, I don't know what the hell it is. Well, OK, there's women. And rum. Rum is good. I'll take one of each. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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It kind of depends, you know? If it's nine degrees and I'm trying to repair the lights on my tractor, it's too goddamn cold. But when it's time to hike...I'm in! Let's go! Honestly, our hike today was very pleasant. I was more than warm enough- I had to ventilate to get rid of excess heat. It was stunningly beautiful, and I had a magnificent if impatient companion. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Does Gracie ever catch the mouse?
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Does Gracie ever catch the mouse? Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Beautiful pics, that's a good looking dog. I sometimes reverse the course of my walks with Izzy and it totally baffles her, she tries and tries to straighten me out, but once we get walking, she goes along. I can tell it upsets her because she whines. Izzy hunts for cats, she knows which houses have them and she really perks up when she gets near them. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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1/6/2015 9:15 am |
Nice pics, again sir. I can't find the forest because of all those trees, though. Also, the long leash seems REALLY long. She seems to keep it tight all the time though, eh?
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Nice pics, again sir. I can't find the forest because of all those trees, though. Also, the long leash seems REALLY long. She seems to keep it tight all the time though, eh? Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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Lovely. Gracie has great people. Taking her out in that weather.
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Lovely. Gracie has great people. Taking her out in that weather. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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I was thinking today when we were hiking out, how do you photograph so that the cold is apparent. You can do tricks, like throwing hot coffee in the air and showing it hit the ground frozen. I guess if you felt cold my pictures worked. PD and I looked cold- Gracie coulda been at the South Haven beach in July, for all she cared about cold. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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