Tuesday 29 September 2020

More forest bathing

UPDATE: Sept. 28th 

Before I continue on, sadly, one of the victims in the car that rolled near us is still in bad shape.  The driver has been charged with drunk driving. The two passengers are still in hospital. One 32-year-old is in hospital here, the other young man, 26, is in really bad shape

Zack Worthington's right wrist is broken, scapula/shoulder blade is broken, his face is broken: nose, orbital bone, forehead crushed. Bleeding from his brain frontal lobe is another problem, as well as some paralysis. He's in a medically induced coma, and on a ventilator. They are doing a fundraiser to help his girlfriend with expenses, as she is out of work. It's raised over $13,000.

I was wondering about the victims. These are all lessons in drinking and driving, especially on dark roads when wildlife is on the move.

OK, back to my tale.

Wait for meeeeeee! I went for a walk, and two cats came along. 


My buddy. 

Down in the wetland, at 'the point,' I had to creep to the edge of the wetland and duck under the tree branches and snap the pretty colours.


She is a dippy cat. Nutmeg tree climbing. Cinnamon just watches from below.

More little mushrooms.
This could be a painting! Can you see Nutmeg on the tree on the left?!




We had tree work done a couple of years ago. You can where the birch, in the foreground, was laid down. In the past few days, the birch in the middle ground came down.
The felled tree has lots of fungus!

I noticed the tree with a bit of a crook. Ten years here, and I'd not seen it before!

Look at those colours!

A man and his cat. She leads when he walks with her. Cinnamon leads when he walks with me!

JB in the forest from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Poor Nutmeg doesn't seem to be feeling well. She's gone back to bed. I'm thinking she needs deworming. We'll try that. 

8 comments:

carol l mckenna said...

Oh lovely autumnal photos and love the video of Nutmeg ~ hope she is feeling better ~ ^_^

Live each moment with love,

A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)

Anvilcloud said...

It must be fun when the cats go walking with you.

You might like this twitter video of two apparently abandoned cats swimming for their lives to reach people in a boat. https://twitter.com/kevinbparry/status/1310276317221449731

I was just thinking recently that I know of three students that I lost to traffic accidents, and I am sure that alcohol played a part. That is one student per decade and these are just those who were in my classes, two of them at the times of their mishaps.

Tom said...

...yesterday we enjoyed a wonderful walk in nature!!!

RedPat said...

Nutmeg is a real character!

William Kendall said...

The cats make very good companions.

The Furry Gnome said...

Is that a lake you can walk down to?

Olga said...

Fall is such a beautiful time of year. I had neighbors who had a cat that would go for walks with them. Our cat just looked appalled we should even suggest such a thing. It seems as though you have lots of cats that enjoy walks in the woods with you. Or maybe you are following them?

Jenn Jilks said...

It's not a lake, FG, it's a wetland. Very shallow, but it cleans the water as it flows into a nearby lake.