Springtime in Ottawa

So, it’s Easter weekend. April 5th. We’re a couple of weeks into spring.

And this is Ottawa:

And, you know, I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way. I love where I live. I’m happy with our seasons. I like the snow and ice because they make the summer sweeter.

This is Mud Lake. I’m a big fan of this place – it’s probably the most mentioned / photographed place on this blog after Wolfe Island.

There’s always something new happening at Mud Lake.

It may be hard to see, but in the photo above, way out at the point, there’s a black blob that looks like a rock. That’s a beaver. There were three of them coming and going through a hole in the ice there. As we walked around the lake we’d see them surfacing at the different lodges that pepper the ice surface. They were swimming under that ice. C-c-c-old …

I love places that make me think of Robert Frost:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Although this is clearly a more traveled road … but perhaps less traveled than the parkways and highways around us?

I couldn’t resist including a photo of this – it almost looks like some kind of artwork / sculpture. Every time we come to Mud Lake there’s more evidence of the beavers hard at work, to the point where I sometimes wonder how there are still trees here? But there are … I think the beavers are more careful than we think (more careful than us).

Happy Easter / Spring from Ottawa!