This weekend is May Two Four, Long Weekend, Victoria Day. Wow. That means Queen Victorias Birthday - okay I understand why we celebrate that plus it gives everyone a day off, though we don't celebrate the current Queens birthday/s. It's called the Long Weekend because there is an extra day, yes that makes sense. May Two Four, represents May the 24th, except that it isn't May 24th until next weekend. Now that I don't understand! Is it May 24 or not? Also, this weekend, everyone opens their cottages and plants beans and tomatoes. Well we planted ours last weekend. ha!
So for this weekend I asked everyone what they wanted to do and no-one came up with anything, so I requested that we walk in the forest and find the Trilliums. Smallest informed me that we have two flowering Trilliums in our own garden so why do we need to walk the forest to find them. He also said, half way through the forest, if we don't find them does that mean we have to go to another forest! Cheeky little bum!
Anyway, after a nice long leisurely morning of breakfast, jigsaw, Grandama and Grandad Skyping and IPad for the boys, we packed our bag with jelly babies and water and headed for the Seaton Trail. First stop was ice cream for the boys (Huffle and I were too cold, yes too cold for ice creams today). The first misdemeanour of the day was mine. I stepped onto the grass and into a puddle (very Vicar of Dibley style), with my best trainers on, one foot fully immersed in water and the other completely encased in mud. Still, it didn't put me off. We steered Smallest around the mud and puddles and carried on to the forest. It was quite a walk until we found any Trilliums but on the way we saw a snake (well Small did), a raccoon (who sat and watched us before running away) and a man fishing who caught one.
Hanging, fishing (the darker images are the rainbow trout)
Fisherman and fighting over a stump and stick!
We stopped and asked what it was as it was huge. "Rainbow rainbow" he said and it hastily got away. We watched him for a while as it was very interesting. We could see the fish underneath the water, swimming against the current. We left him and carried on walking, finding many many Trilliums, Shuttlecock Ferns and Wild Violets.
The boys sat on many stumps, climbed hills, swung on branches, tripped up, fell over and dodged the mud. Despite the fact they complained about coming, they enjoyed the walk and said they would come here again (though I think the ice cream might have more of a lure than the walk itself).
We turned around when Huffle's food alarm rumbled, saw the same Trilliums but from a different angle, jumped more mud puddles, sat on the same stumps and stood and watched the fisherman again. He still hadn't caught anything and we worked out if we watched him through my camera, but in black and white, we could clearly see the fish under the water.
Whitevale Park. A painting a lady was doing on the bridge.
The building she was painting. A run down house in the park.
Back in the car, we drove out to Whitby and had a Fish and Chip dinner. We then went to a couple of shops, bought a few plants and some fruit and eventually came home.
Funny sign we saw as we were leaving Whitby and Small piggy backing Smallest
All the boys played football and I moved our Magnolia bush and a few other small things. We all sat on the porch in the weak sunshine, planning our next bit of gardening. This morning we saw the hummingbirds again. We are now thinking we might move the Hummingbird feeder so ewe can see them clearly from the house and the porch. I sowed some seeds under the feeder last weekend and they are starting to come through already. I hope they are something good!
Because it is 'long weekend', there are many places selling fireworks. There were tents and lorries. People selling fireworks literally off the back off a lorry. Imagine if one went off..............
Sitting outside of the porch we could hear lots of mowing. Must be summer then! Where is that damn sun then! Huffle sat and looked at old photos and videos when the kids were younger. It's funny to see how their behaviour towards each other hasn't changed at all! They watched TV after they had baths and went to bed.
Glad I got to see the Trilliums - lovely flowers.
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