Winter to Spring
A friend of ours has a lovely farm along the South Nation River, between Jessup's Falls and Plantagenet. We head out there for visits every couple of months and have even kayaked past the property in one of our first YouTube videos . In addition to old barns and heritage buildings, our friend has cleared some of the surrounding woods to create hiking trails that he uses for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in the winter months. And in January, a few of us slapped on some snowshoes to take to those trails. As we started on the trail between his farmhouse and the river, we reached a bridge that our friend had built over a brook that ran from the north side of Highway 17 to the South Nation River. We had been over the original bridge many times, in the summer and autumn, but it was really in rough shape, with lots of decayed wood, and so last summer our friend built a new one. Any time we had seen the brook, it was small and fairly shallow, and not much to worry about. The new br...
