playing catch up - part 1

We've been a little slack on the blog front, so here's a catch up MEGA post part 1!!

Some pretty spring flowers (as promised several months ago). It turns out they are noxious weeds (Thanks to Da & Maggie for finding this out for me).


While my Dad was visiting we went to the Alexander Graham Bell house. He lived in Brampton, so they claim the telephone (here's an early example).

He also had a platypus in his house which amused me!


That weekend we also went to Crawford lake. It is one of the few meromictic lakes in the world. A merometic lake is one in which the water doesn't really mix, meaning that you can take samples from the bottom and find out about the surrounding area. In this case they found out that there used to be a Iroquoian village near by!

There were turtles! :)
Here's a picture of the inside of the reconstructed longhouse (it was National Aboriginal something or other day, so they had lots of people there explaining this which was fascinating).


On one of our walks we saw some baby raccoons!