In the cold, keep moving

Along the Quarry Trail on the edge of Kanata people feed the wild deer with carrots and apples which encourages them not to be shy. The chickadees aren't shy either, a constant coming and going of them on our outstretched hands yesterday afternoon, as we stopped to feed them seeds.

We've kept up a series of Sunday walks since Christmas, last week in bitterly cold conditions through the streets of Rockcliffe Park to the rockeries (buried in snow) and then back to our starting point past MacKay Lake (a "Conservation Area"), the previous Sunday at Mud Lake, the week before that on the Larriault trail in the Gatineau Park, on New Year's Day in Montreal and on Christmas Day itself following dog walkers' home made trails through the woods above Ojai Road on a steep hillside in Chelsea.