Posh digs for a beaver

This is where the wealthy, well-to-do beavers live.

On our drive through Canada, we’ve encountered countless beaver dams and lodges, but this area covered acres of stepped dams with lodges back farther away from the road.

These little lakes created by the beavers were surrounded by babbling brooks, mosses, and wildflowers.

As it was, I spent quite a while traipsing around their back yard, and invading their privacy

I would have stayed longer, but mom and the baby were waiting (besides, I was wearing flip-flops and shorts – and walking through an area where all the little trees and bushes were sawed off by the beavers at ankle height)