beautiful Elk Island to the North

SNOWSHOEING IN ELK ISLAND (JUST OUT OF EDMONTON)

WE WERE ON THE HUNT FOR BISON,MOOSE AND CARIBOU.WE FOLLOWED THE CLUES,POO, BISON FUR ON A LOG,FOOT PRINTS .what we found was a porcupine nestled in a tree we had to go off the track to look at him (believe me this is not easy to do in snowshoes of course i fell over again and you really need to video john trying to get me up and him trying to keep himself balanced with these shoes on.

PICNIC IN ELK ISLAND

wE HAD A LOVELY PICNIC IN THE SNOW. wE COULD HEAR THE SQUIRRELS LETTING EACH OTHER KNOW WE WERE DROPPING CRUMBS. PLEASE NOTE THE CARIBOU POO WE SPOTTED HAD TO TAKE THE PHOTO AS WE COULDNT FIND THE ACTUAL CARIBOU.

ELK ISLAND EXPLORING

ON THE HUNT FOR BISON WE FINALLY FOUND THEM ON THE ROADSIDE!

Around home

Gull lake is a small area near us that is very popular in summer we went for a drive .

The black tents near the pickups are portable ice fishing tents.We turned around as we were worried we would get bogged!! as we have once before on a lake.

Edmonton Museum (a must if you visit us)

Same weekend as our Oilers game we ventured to the Museum.

WEEKEND AT GULL LAKE

Gull Lake is about 10 minutes from our place people go camoing there. But we went for a Snowshoe on the lake before it thaws. John has borrowed snowshoes from the local high school and they have been lots of fun.
Photos of the wharf where boats will dock in summer.Our second car that John drives to worl.Going for a stroll around the lake and John and I try to take a self timer picture but he wasnt quick enough

Go the Oilers

I attended a food security conference and got chatting with the presenter,we went for coffee, her son lived in Australia and we chatted about the local hockey games john and I had been to in Red Deer . She then said she had season tickets to the Oilers and would we like to go the following weekend. ( Oilers tickets by the way cant be bought which is why we have mainly gone to local games.) We were very excited and went!!!!!

Home in the Snow

Here are MORE photos of our lovely yard in winter.I had to rug up for this work around ,but as usual it was too beautiful to just look out the window at it.