Salt Spring Camping

Tree Planting

Following in their father's footsteps, the boys helped to plant Garry Oak trees at the Garry Oak preserve near us. We were hoping to spy some Western Bluebirds, but instead saw three Great-horned Owls. Not bad!

Cow Bay

strawberry season

Here is one of the baskets of berries I picked from a local farm.

Above is a handful of heaven from our own patch. 

The boys raiding the patch.

Our giant berry!

Fun at the Forestry centre

silly time

Release the Hounds! er, I mean, butterflies.

 Here we are: getting ready to say farewell.
The butterflies immediately starting flapping their wings when we brought the cage into the warm sunlight. We opened the cage and then waited. One was anxious to explore and flew out quickly.

Others needed more coaxing. I let three of them crawl onto my hand to bring them out. One stayed on Beaver for quite awhile and another got close enough to Bear to make his day.

Beaver and I were surprised when the last butterfly finally made the escape. Such a lovely experience!