Cedar Roots Along the Gooseberry River

The fall colors are now past peak along the North Shore.

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Dusting of Snow

This week we had a dusting of snow twice along with below freezing temperatures but this weekend the sunshine returned.

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Mountain Ash Berries with snow

Snow on the Mountain Ash made for some great photos.

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Sugar Maple Leaves

Steve Van Kekerix and I took a day trip up the Sawbill Trail. Most of the leaves had fallen but in some spots the leaves on the ground still had plenty of color.

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Pine Martin 001

As we were driving along the grade road east of the Sawbill Trail we had a beautiful pine martin run across the road in front of us. He climbed a nearby spruce tree and gave us a pretty good show for about a half hour. Pine martin can move through the branches as fast as they can move on the ground. He jumped from branch to branch growling at us every once in a while.

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Pine Martin 002

He let us take some good photos before climbing to the top of a tall spruce and bedding down in the fork of a branch. It appeared as though he would be there for some time so we continued on our way.

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