End of summer

Hey everyone, thanks for checking in as summer comes to an end. Our garden is in full bloom, lots of flowers and veggies. We also bought some beautiful gladiolas and I wanted to share some pictures of them with you, they're soooo beautiful.
On the adventure side of things, we've gotten in a few day trips since my last post. Starting last Sunday, we headed out early to go fishing. We stopped by the side of the road to....well you know...what dogs do! We found a skidoo trail marked "JJ" (go figure) and decided to follow it. Good call. It lead way up to a vista of a huge hay field then continued on to a 360 open summit view. WHAT A FIND! Knox mountain.
Back to the van and drove more until we got to a boat launch on the Little Ossippe River. Mom and Dad decided to paddle UP river, fine, I'm just along for the ride! We explored a couple of wet land areas then on up to the first set of rapids. How do you get UP rapids? Well the folks got out of the boat, waist deep in rushing river water and pulled me and the canoe Up through three sets of rips....they're crazy that way. Then we rode the rips back down...my first time! It was soooo much fun, we never did go fishing!
This weekend we had to go to Vermont Friday night so we began a slow meander back east in the rain Saturday morning, playing tourist. We did stop in Enfield NH to make lunch and hiked into a woods pond, in the rain, called Butterfield pond. It was really cool. We saw lots of mushrooms in the rain.
Sunday we hiked Douglas mountain in Sebago Maine. It's a loop trail that takes you up to a rock tower lookout that looks down on the Sebago lake area. Stunning, rain gone, sun out, cool air, perfect hiking day! Fall is in the air and this adventure dog is looking so forward to the fall hiking season! Stay tuned!