The Beach In Spring.

 

We have a late Spring this year with

 heavy snowfalls in March.

We are anxious for it to melt and 

see some green grass and flowers. 

My sister Annie and I have 

been visiting the beaches, 

taking advantage before 

the tourists arrive and

the snow melts and we

start gardening. 

Walking along the shore, 

listening to the waves and 

hunting for seaglass and other treasures. 

Today we visited Grandmas Beach. 

My Grandma has been gone

 many many years and

we have a lot of memories 

playing there as kids. 

So for us it will always be

 Grandmas Beach, also

known as Fauvel Beach. 

We planned to visit the 3 waterfalls in the photo.

The road to the beach is still snow 

covered,  from large snow drifts.

We careful trudged down to the shore.

It was 10 deg. C with sun and clouds in the sky,

with snow still lingering close to shore,

where water from high tides doesn't reach.

At low tide we can walk

around these rock and

get to the beach going east.

We got as far as 2 waterfalls.

Clouds were low.

We decided to head back.

The beach here is relatively clean, 

with only a few driftwood trees.

also an egg, the Easter Bunny left behind 😁

Some of our treasures.

I met an old school friend on another beach

a few days ago and she told me that if I

find a gray piece of seaglass,

 which is very rare to find,

 to say a prayer for someone in need.

By chance, 

Annie finds this huge piece 

of gray seaglass today.

To my amazement, 

I find this beautiful piece of yellow glass.

It's a year for beautiful colours

that we've never found here before.

We bogged back up the hill 

and return home, 

satisfied of our adventure,

on Grandmas Beach. 

Happy Spring

Thanks for your visit.

💚💛💜

January At The Beach.

We had a green Christmas this year,

which was unusual, as the most 

of our province was already 

burdened with snow. 

On the 4th of January we had a

dusting of snow on the ground.

On the 5th, my sister Annie and I

decided to go for a walk to the 

beach, before more snow came

and prevented us to do that.

Only a dusting of snow on the ground.

 

This is a beach on the Baie des Chaleur,

in Gaspé, Eastern Quebec.

We had a sunny day with clear blue skies

 

We dressed very warm

The temperature was 

-5degrees Celsius

(23 Fahrenheit)

The hardest was taking

off gloves to take a pic.

My hands got cold very fast.

My sister Annie.

We walked towards the frozen waterfalls.

We didn't get too close

because of falling rocks and ice.

A close-up

On our way back

Annie

Very low tides.

We walk here often in Summer

and I have never seen the tide

so low. 

There is a lot of erosion on our

shores from rising seawater.

The absence of ice flow, 

(a usually large flat free mass 

of floating sea ice)

caused by milder temperatures

has caused more erosion.

The ice flows, out in the deep,  

are known to reduce the size of

the waves, and protect the shoreline

 as those waves make their way to 

 the beach.

Also Spring thaw will take more land. 

While walking on the beach, 

we could see and hear rocks

from the cliffs falling. 

Trees falling and washed into the sea.

Large boulders were placed for 

protection from high tides and 

strong ocean waves.

Stairways eaten away.

The highlight of our adventure

was finding this sand dollar.

First time ever I see one

 on the beach here.

The other side was broken.

Probably washed here with

the high tides and strong waves.

I hope you enjoyed our adventure 

on the beach in January.

We are happy to have gone as

this may be the last chance to

get to the beach with deep snow

blocking most paths. 

Last week we had a heavy snowfall

with over a foot of snow falling.

The photo below was taken Jan. 14th.

Thanks for your visit

💙💚💗

Happy New Year 2023 and An Update On The Pickle Tradition.

 As we get older,

 each year seems to pass faster.

My daughter and her family

 visited for Christmas.

They had planned on skiing 

but we didn't have enough snow.

We had a green Christmas. 

To come up with some activities,

I planned to carry out the 

Christmas Pickle Tradition,

(a glass pickle hidden on the Christmas 

tree and Christmas morning whoever

 finds it receives a gift and 

goodwill for the New Year).

This year, I planned it 

in the different way.

The kids are now teenagers.

So I decided to make it more 

of a challenge and hide the pickle

on a tree outside, instead of on

a decorated tree inside.

They had to find the undecorated tree 

and I have a lot around the property, 

spruce, pine, tamarack, birch, etc;

find the hidden glass pickle and 

whoever finds it receives a prize.

(In a radius of 100ft from the house,

the land is approx. 1 mile long)

Sweet Sabrina, 

my Granddaughter,

 found it.

I also created another game.

I decorated another tree 

outside with red ornaments,

In a secluded area.

Whoever finds the tree and brings an

ornament back to the house,

receives a gift.

Matthew found it.

I forgot to take a pic of his gift.

It was a ski facemask.

High winds the previous day

blew off some ornaments.

with Suzanne and cute dog Pinot.

 

So the prize for the pickle finder,

Sabrina, was a "Polar Express Train"

It will look nice around a tree.

We did visit the beach

Its unusual not to have snow 

at this time of the year.

Water seeping out of the banks have frozen.

Suzanne found a nice 

piece of amber seaglass.

It could be the bottom of

a glass Javex bottle. 

My sister, Annie found a 

rare large piece of cobalt blue.

A piece of bottom from 

a Milk Of Magnesia bottle.

Erosion is eating away at the land 

caused from rising waters, high winds from 

storms, global warming.

We are losing ground.

You can view a previous blog on

 "The Pickle Tradition", 

from years gone by,

by clicking here.

I also added more Christmas decoration

 photos on my previous post.

click here to view more.

Sadly, we lost our oldest sister Joyce this year.

We called her Joy, and that name suited her.

She was a Joy to everyone in the family. 💖

She will be missed.

I wish you all a Happy New Year

with joy, peace and good health also

may our world heal from diseases

and disasters.

💖💗💖