Welcome to Modernista Mama’s newest menu tab: Adventure Girls!All of the adventure type travel and sports I do with my girls (daughters, mom and any other females in my life at the time) will be stored under this new tab.
Have an adventure for us to attempt? Contact me andAdventure Girls!will try it out and report on it!
This morning I went on a most beautiful desert hike in the Thompson River area of British Columbia with my mom. The region is near Lac Dubois. I absolutely adore everything about this area! The smells: wild sage, the sounds: Meadow Larks, the sites: rolling dry hills, cacti and craggy cliffs…for as far as the eye can see.
Spring in the desert hills, a most beautiful and fleeting time of blossoming beauties!
I Hope you enjoy the pics of our hike below.
Cacti and SageSage Flower Buds (fuzzy little balls).I will ID these flowers when I purchase a new Wild Flowers of BC handbook–cannot find mine anywhere!LarkspurSage Covered HIlls Near Lac Dubois B.C.We looked for geodes while we hiked.Will ID this flower asap– though they look somewhat like a small tulip.Look closely–can you find the giant grasshopper? Approx 3″ in length and well camouflaged.My plant ecologist expert sister says these orange specimens are the plant’s leaves and not flowers.Lac Dubois cacti–a few went through my barefoot runners! And somehow, I ended up sitting on one???My mom, adventure girl!Me, always game to seek adventure.BC Freight train near Lac Dubois. (I love trains)Two freight trains meeting, and elegantly snaking beside one another as they weave their way through the Thompson River Valley.On route to China!
This was a wonderful hike both going up and coming down. We got off the big trail on the way down and it took us a while to find an alternate route down. Some parts were rather steep but we made it!
Did you ID those flowers? I’m a plant nerd too and had to look it up but couldn’t find the red and yellow flowers (they almost look like tulips). I’m not sure if you are based in BC but I am putting a shout out to BC Mom Bloggers about the new facebook group called West Coast Mom Bloggers. Would love to see you there. Shawna.
Shawna–still trying to find my flower book 🙁 Yes, the red and yellow flower looked like a tulip but tiny. Perhaps the seeds blew up from the old TB institutional property below the hills? Will join your group today! Thanks 🙂
JOHN HART
This was a wonderful hike both going up and coming down. We got off the big trail on the way down and it took us a while to find an alternate route down. Some parts were rather steep but we made it!
Mix Hart
Never want to leave that place-it’s like a cocktail of perfection every time I’m on the land.
And you were a real trooper Adventure Girl! XOXO
Shawna
Did you ID those flowers? I’m a plant nerd too and had to look it up but couldn’t find the red and yellow flowers (they almost look like tulips). I’m not sure if you are based in BC but I am putting a shout out to BC Mom Bloggers about the new facebook group called West Coast Mom Bloggers. Would love to see you there. Shawna.
Mix Hart
Shawna–still trying to find my flower book 🙁 Yes, the red and yellow flower looked like a tulip but tiny. Perhaps the seeds blew up from the old TB institutional property below the hills? Will join your group today! Thanks 🙂