There is more good news than bad

She told us that she took her flashlight and went down in the basement. The power went out and the storm arrived, fierce, loud, lightning and thunder - Amadeus.

Not 20m away from the fallen Maple.

The side of the house untouched:

There were several houses in Greenwood with damge still visible 2 weeks later, No photos.

This vista is just 30° to the left of the line to the Maple.

 A serene Spring day, just 2 weeks later.

WOB

A derecho, pronounced deh-REY-cho, is a long-lived, fast-moving thunderstorm

The date was May 21st, 2022, Uxbridge.

Two weeks later we visited a friend and saw the damage to a 20m long - once tall, Maple.

Note the person in the lower right corner of the picture.

Just wind:

Framed?

So many memories -

This Saturday's visit had an echo of the wind storm.

A kind of post script:

"So far, field crews with the Northern Tornadoes Project have identified at least one EF2 tornado, which hit Uxbridge, Ont., with wind speeds of up to 195 km/h."

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/confirmed-uxbridge-hit-by-195-km-h-tornado-embedded-in-a-derecho

 https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/catastrophes/was-derecho-storm-damage-caused-by-climate-change-1004221681/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/05/22/weather-ontario-storm/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-tornado-touched-down-in-uxbridge-during-weekend-storm-that-swept/

Traveling along the road to Greenwood and in Greenwood itself we saw more evidence of damage caused by that brief storm.

 

wobbly old 

or

wizened odd

What do astronomers do on their night out?

 Vicki and I went out to see the total lunar eclipse totally obscured by clouds, more or less. Does that make it more than 100% total?

Here are some of our impressions:

Slow learners, or what? The missing photos if you look at the number IDs look like the rest,

Then it rained for necessities of life,

WOB

Why did the chicken cross the road - a fowl joke.

 Vicki and I were out for a drive checking some of our favourite watering holes where there is water! And we found some Greater Yellowlegs on their way north. So a degree of accomplishment. So we decided to try our luck where we had seen a Trumpeter pair in other years but nothing there recently.

We stopped the car and saw nothing. A tinge of sadness. When suddenly, and I do mean suddenly, a white Trumpeter was spotted flying directly towards us/car. It landed not 20m from us and continued toward us swimming! We got out of the car and waited to see what would happen next.

The story of K75.

Now Vicki is standing to my left, to the birds right. So it looks like the bird is going to walk between us?

Can you see "K75" on its  yellow wing tag? Vicki is is off to the right.

And so having been greeted, the bird entered the water and swam away!

I have more photos but I think you get the picture. And to all a pleasant Mothers' Day.

WOB

Almost at the same stage as the red Trilliums were the yellow ones

 I found these right where Vicki said they were . she noticed them the past 2 years. They appear when the reds appear - so a couple of days before the more traditional white Trilliums of this area.

The tree in the first photo left side, is the same one in the bottom photo right side. I have moved about a meter to the left between photos.

WOB

This afternoon while "fishing" in the "valley"

 I had a bite almost immediately:

Then I looked to see if the "red" were running:

So were the white this far along? No.

But almost:

And so to "EL's" clump:

It was alone in its greenery. Still quite a complex after our 2 years of observing.

And then the wise old so and so saw a Pileated! Can you see it?

 

 So maybe there is potential in the wise ol' bird?

Here it is cropped and enlarged for the rest of us:

And I followed with my deaf ears!

WOB

This afternoon near Mariposa

See Postscript, too - Thursday's edition. wob

 

 I went over to the Leacock Museum this afternoon to do some bird watching - like

Gold Finch, Mergansers, Grackles - standing stock still. When an elderly gentleman walked up to me and was startled. "I thought you were one of these silly Leacock figures"_

I answered: "You aren't far off, are you!"

WOB

PS In the words of Victor Borge -  " I don't usually do requests - unless I am asked"

There was a request for a selfie. And then there was the fear I might be turned into one of Leacock's characters if he were alive today. And then the comment about my wardrobe. So I include an unpremeditated photo Vicki took of me more than 2 years ago while I was being encouraged to get a haircut. (Wed March 18, 2020)