{"id":317,"date":"2011-08-29T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T12:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/?p=317"},"modified":"2016-07-10T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T18:01:59","slug":"pebbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datcha.ca\/la_datcha\/2011\/08\/29\/pebbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Pebbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer in July, my boyfriend\u2019s family gets together in the Eastern Townships. It\u2019s a week of swimming, frog hunting (poor creatures), berry fruits picking, wild mushrooms picking and of course, eating.<\/p>\n<p>There are five nephews and nieces to entertain and all of the activities above are enough to make them happy. However, this year we added something new: rock painting. We spent an hour choosing pebbles near the pond and in the path leading to the woods plus two afternoons painting our bounty. Here are some of the artworks created by the kids&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Atelier avec les flos \/ Having fun with the kids de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/5946137743\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6014\/5946137743_28c98b851b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Atelier avec les flos \/ Having fun with the kids\" width=\"640\" height=\"599\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess this activity will also become a classic, giving the frogs a well deserved break. But why don\u2019t they swim far away when they see that the kids have arrived? Maybe they like the company&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"No break for frogs - Pas de pause pour les grenouilles de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/6090168734\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6208\/6090168734_8ec26b2938_z.jpg\" alt=\"No break for frogs - Pas de pause pour les grenouilles\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">I particularly like the jaded look of that last frog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I must say I had as much fun as the kids painting rocks. Enough to hunt for more stones while hiking and enough to ask a friend who went to <a title=\"Gasp\u00e9sie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gasp%C3%A9_Peninsula\">Gasp\u00e9sie<\/a> to bring me back a bag of pebbles. Which he did (thank you Marc!). There is enough to keep me going for a few months.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec) de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/6089369416\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6187\/6089369416_a145e81dd8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec)\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec) de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/6089369476\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6204\/6089369476_73480b8a69_z.jpg\" alt=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #888888;\">Enough pebbles to experiment on for a few months!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec) de ma Datcha, sur Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/20983499@N00\/6089018743\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6071\/6089018743_f91b3bc705_z.jpg\" alt=\"Galets de la Gasp\u00e9sie - Pebbles from Gasp\u00e9sie (Qu\u00e9bec)\" width=\"600\" height=\"612\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Andy Goldsworthy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk\/image\/?id=ag_03285&amp;t=1\">Carefully broken pebbles<\/a> by Andy Goldsworthy (one of my favourite artists).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 0.85; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 188px; left: 20px;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer in July, my boyfriend\u2019s family gets together in the Eastern Townships. It\u2019s a week of swimming, frog hunting (poor creatures), berry fruits picking, wild mushrooms picking and of course, eating. There are five nephews and nieces to entertain and all of the activities above are enough to make them happy. 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