A GAME OF
HIDE-AND-SEEK
By Marielle Jobin
Last September, my
friend and I decided to go hiking in the Gaspé region’s provincial park. At the
information center, I told the guide that I wanted to see some moose. He
suggested that we go on the Ernest Laporte mountain trail where hikers had
recently seen a few.
We had been walking
for two hours when we reached the shelter at the top of the mountain. There, we
delighted in the beauty of the landscape, and using ours binoculars we were
expecting to see the beast, the king of the forest. But after one hour
of observation, nothing! No moose! The weather started to get cold and windy. ¨Let’s
go back down”, said my friend.
As we were making
our way back down the mountain, of course, the wind died down and the sun appeared.
Despairing, I was sure I had missed something. But, when we arrived in the parking
lot… SURPRISE! A lady moose was there: huge, proud and calm.
After this game of
hide-and seek, did I see a smile on her face? My friend whispered ¸¨Take a
picture, take a picture¨. Too excited, by the time I had prepared my camera,
the moose was making its way back to the forest.
What an encounter!
But although so much was happening at the same time, I still managed to get a
picture of… a big brown pair of buttocks!
A GREAT MOMENT AND
THE BEGINNING
OF A WONDERFUL TIME --- by Carole Lemonde
It
was in 1999 and it was the end of summer.
My husband and I were looking for a cottage up North. We looked around
by ourselves for a few months but we didn’t find what suited our needs. So we decided to call up a real-estate agent
working for an agency in the Laurentians.
We
gave him an overview of our needs and he scheduled four visits for us on the
following week end. After we had visited three cottages, we were a little bit
discouraged about what we could expect to get for the money we were willing to
spend.
Finally
we headed towards the last cottage on the list.
We fell in love with the house as soon as we saw it. It was cosy but not luxurious, by a small
lake and it had a lot of land. The price
was too high but we saw that the owners really expected to sell before the
winter season.
On
our way back, near the cottage, we met two deer crossing the road, a couple of
partridge on the side and a family of fox on a big rock. All that… within five minutes. We were really flabbergasted!!!!!!
We looked at the agent and laughed, telling him
that it so looked like a staging developed by him to influence our decision into
buying that cottage.
Finally,
we negotiated a good price and bought that cottage. The following years spent there were
unforgettable moments until we divorced in 2004.
I could almost say they were the five of the
best years of my life, sharing family pleasure with nature…
Thanks to both of you for
first writing about
this memorable time in your
lives and
letting me post them here for
all to read!
Keep on writing, it comes
naturally from you. GREAT JOB!
Your very PROUD teacher,
SUZANNE
??? WHY am I a proud teacher,
you ask?
Because both Marielle and
Carole have mastered
VERB FLOW in their anecdotes.
BRAVO!
Not an easy accomplishment.
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