Almost spring hike

We have a great hiking trail called Red Island Trail that starts just outside the door of St. Ann's Bay United Church where every Wed. during the winter we have a spectacular lunch after listening to a spectacular speaker. Today Otis Tomas, a local guitar and violin-fiddle maker and fiddler, showed us how he constructs violins. Afterward Andy and Honey and I walked the trail, which makes its way along an inland salt marsh to the ocean then wends its way through the woods near the banks of the Barrachois River and back to the church. It was wonderfully warm, the ocean and sky lovely blues and best of all we didn't need our snowshoes but were, for the most part, able to walk on top of the snow. In the pictures below, Andy is napping in the arms of a tree washed ashore during one of our many fierce fall storms, and I am caught in a sinkhole, though you can't see that because Honey arrived at that moment to proudly show us what she'd found in the woods: a leg shank that appears to have belonged to a deer (we think).

Click here to see some of Otis's work (you won't be disappointed): http://www.fiddletree.com/

And you can click on the pictures to enlarge them.

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