Yes, I know it has been a long time. I have not felt like sharing my life for these past weeks. The Winter has been cold and wet. My office is cold and I have not worked on the computer as much as I should have. I will fill in the gaps a bit later but today I am so excited I just must share these photos.
We have been logging. Not cutting down old growth forests but logging to start over. We have a lot of old spruce trees and Alder and well all kinds of stuff, mostly junk. We are about at the end of the cutting down. But today arrived the new beautiful trees. Babies, yes but good stock that will grow for many, many years. We have Spruce, Doug Fir,Western Red Cedar, Hemlock and Red woods. We will have spruce growing naturally and the Alder will come up all over. I am very fond of Alder. It is native here and is deciduous. It fixes nitrogen in the soil that feeds the other trees. And it is fast growing and worth a lot more these days than it was in the past.
Here is an Alder piece that shows the beautiful colour 
And on with the new. All 9,000 trees in the pickup and the trailer.
Here is Kirt holding up a Western red Cedar 
And off down the hill
I think this shot is profound as the trees in the background are growing, the new ones in his backpack are to be the next generation and on the ground the remains of the logging operation.
And the most exciting thing for me that for the first time I saw the creek. Thomas Creek. Can you almost hear it rushing down to the ocean?