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Isobel Cunningham has published short fiction and poetry. Her book, Northern Compass is available on Amazon. She was born in Wales but Montreal is her adopted home. She speaks French, Modern Greek ( it’s a fun story) and a little Spanish…oh, English too, of course. She welcomes comments on her blog and looks forward to chatting with you over cyber-space.

On the Island

Not what I want to see at the trailhead

Yesterday my daughter and I went for a walk in Strathcona National Park up on Mount Washington. She has been dealing with a couple of health problems lately so I was happy to hear her suggest this outing.

This sign at the trailhead was not very encouraging. I have a bit of a phobia of bears. However, I gulped and set off behind her as she airily reassured me that we just had to say “Hi Bear” and look the fuzzy one in the eye and he would disappear into the woods. I had no idea black bears were so antisocial.

The white ones are “ ladies’ tresses”

The ground was covered with wild flowers. I am out of my depth here as I am not at all familiar with the native flowers.A few useful markers here and there gave me hints.

These flowers have gone to seed

But they are still lovely to me

Young trees and some jewel-like blooms

We walked along a sort of boardwalk because some of the ground was boggy.

Autumn crocus
A little stream where ducks foraged
And no, no bears in sight

It was cool and cloudy at times but nature made up for that today with warmer temperatures and a lovely sky down by the beach

Evening and the mainland in the distance
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