When I go "to Canada" I go to visit family. The part of this house on the right was built after the original house, built in 1958, burned down in 1973. Then in in the late 80s my parents added the "granny flat" to the left of the garages. My father personally built not just the original house but all this too - with a little help from his friends and a lot of help from my brother - and my mother has turned each house into a comfortable, welcoming home. My sister and her family live here now; she was born just a month after work started on the original house (and what a frantic month that must have been!).
The trees at the rear of the picture (along the road, ie the front of the property) were planted soon after we moved here - that's what 50 years of growth looks like. Much of the back of the property was cleared for greenhouses, but there are a couple of acres of "bush" left, and it's a wonderful place, mostly evergreens (hemlock?) and some birches in the peaty soil.
A path loops near the edges of this little rainforest -
Trees are left to fall and rot -
and to be covered by several types of moss growing lushly along with mushrooms among the fallen leaves -
Good conditions for lichen too -
These aren't huge snails, just fungi -
All around this primitive, magic place, neighbours have cleared the land to various degrees -
and have planted blueberry bushes, row on row -
Among the blueberries and cranberries, and ever-nearer housing developments, there are still a few oases where these wonderful giants can grow in peace.
The trees at the rear of the picture (along the road, ie the front of the property) were planted soon after we moved here - that's what 50 years of growth looks like. Much of the back of the property was cleared for greenhouses, but there are a couple of acres of "bush" left, and it's a wonderful place, mostly evergreens (hemlock?) and some birches in the peaty soil.
A path loops near the edges of this little rainforest -
Trees are left to fall and rot -
and to be covered by several types of moss growing lushly along with mushrooms among the fallen leaves -
Good conditions for lichen too -
These aren't huge snails, just fungi -
All around this primitive, magic place, neighbours have cleared the land to various degrees -
and have planted blueberry bushes, row on row -
Among the blueberries and cranberries, and ever-nearer housing developments, there are still a few oases where these wonderful giants can grow in peace.
3 comments:
Lovely photos, particularly like the ones of the damp green mossy forests - they look quite mysterious.
Wonderful! That last shot - cedars perhaps?
Such places need protection! Maybe some day we'll all see the elementary spirits that guard such natural retreats.
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