This past weekend we took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed out of town to explore Frontenac Provincial Park.
We took a picnic and enjoyed some lunch before we set off on a hike around the lake. The kids were pretty excited.
Isabel spent some time trying to identify plants that were listed on our hiking guide. This is a Button Bush.
We took a side trail to Kemp Mine since the kids are into rocks & minerals and spent a while looking for shards of mica. The mine is abandoned and visitors are barred from entering, but the kids would have loved to climb down into the hole to explore.
We had complany, but he didn't seem interested in helping us find any mica.
The scenery up here is really quite something. It reminds me more of being out west in the Rocky Mountains than in the relative flatness of the midwest I know. There is rock everywhere!
Isabel was happy to her rock-climbing skills to the test.
This was my favorite spot - a flooded beaver pond. There was just something so peaceful about the stillness of the water and the crystal clear reflection. I could have sat here for hours.
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