Oak Ridge Moraine

My mom is in town for the holiday weekend, and she'll be cooking a turkey for us.

I love my mom. Not only does she come visit but she brings the big meal with her :)

The three of us went out for a drive after church this morning. I was taking picture after the service again, although we finished quickly this time.. only a few passport photos to take for the church site today.

The fun was heading up to the Oak Ridge Moraine, an area in the North of the Durham Region, that is replete with Conservation areas and trails and quarries and the like. It was Courtney's idea, one I am very thankful she had, she seems to be subtley (or not so subtely sometimes) encouraging my creativity. We trekked up Westney in hopes of finding some areas to take nice pictures up there. Now.. that sounds great but once you get above Highway 7 on Westney it turns into a dirt hell of a road full of potholes. Pavement cannot be found for miles in any direction so getting up there was not enjoyable. On the way back however we found an ENTIRELY paved way that would have saved a lot of aggravation. lol.. Oh well.. the fall colours weren't especially resplendant anyways today, so we'll take another trip some time and probably take the much easier way up Brock.

We went out in search of fall, and found only a fraction of it. However we did see a few other very interesting things. Some cool birdhouses that I'm sure you'll see soon, and a couple of nice plants. Some daisy like things, and a snap dragon that tried to hide, but Courtney spotted on our way back to the car.

On our way home we found some horses, and that was probably one of the highlights as they were right on the other side of the electric fence. I managed to not shock myself, and snap a few nice shots of the group. There were 3 of them all cozy in their little horsie blankies.

So in honor of my first trip up to the Oak Ridge Moraine, here are horses and daisies (sorta)