What We Did This Summer Vacation, An MPEG Paints 500 Words

What a great two weeks we had in my favorite place in the world.  Thank you, forest!  Thank you, lake!  Thank you, eagle, deer, muscrat (unpictured but encountered), fox (unpictured but encountered), mink (unpictured but encountered, merganzer, chipmunks, squirrels, loons, perrigrine falcons, gold finches, song sparrows, chipping sparrows, chickadees, pileated wood peckers, and fellow creatures of the natural world!  Thank you white pines, jack pines, norway pines, tamarack pines, aspen, birch, alder, blue spruce, fir trees, cedar trees and all tall standing, broadly and deeply rooted friends of my heart!  Thank you, thank you, thank you clouds and sky, rainbows, reflections, breezes and gales, rain and thunder, lightning and bright hot illuminating sun!  Thank you stars and galaxies!  What a world!