snowpics

Wow, what a week it has been in my yard. Some of you know that I live on a ravine in the Oshawa area and there is plenty of green space in the area. This brings different critters and different challenges to our yard. A couple of days ago we spotted a Doe Deer in our yard along with it’s fawn. This has been a spectacular site.

She gave birth to her fawn this spring, and although we haven’t seen it until later on Saturday we had heard from neighbors that she was around.
We were working on our fence this weekend with the help of my Father-in-law and his neighbor from Lindsay. Just as we finished up and cleaned the cement from the tools and got everything tidied, the clouds started to open up and rain on our little parade. After the rain was done we decided to take a look at the stream and were we impressed with the sheer awesomeness of mother nature! The entire creek had flooded completely and into our back yard. This of course led to me and my father-in-law wanting to wade through this raging river and out to where the banks used to be. I have a before picture of the river and banks here:

This is the river after the storm. There is a four foot fence entirely washed out and covered here. This was a wire and cedar post fence likely put in around 1965. We werent too concerned that it is gone as we had been talking with the neighbors about removing it anyway.
This is after:

Like I said the power of mother nature is quite impressive. The current from the water was a bit of concern when we were wading through the shallower parts and really quite drastic. I got an OK pic of the currents that were raging past some trees that aren’t usually in the river.