Happy Victoria Day Weekend

 The Rain Goddess arrived safely this afternoon. However, today is more about snow!

Two large ski jumps of snow in the Horseshoe Valley. And more of a surprise for me: a Snow goose, dark morph, in a 25°C meadow:

 So is this the last "snow" for the Winter 2025-26?

 

 WOB

Happy Mothering Sunday - gehabt

Mother Nature

 

And the "Hand of Man":

 

 

Thank you,

WOB 

Return to the Scene on May 4th

 "Hamilton" wants to build a bigger and better road through significant wetlands - I wonder if one has thought  of what might happen? Consider my entry for April 22. I am updating it to May 4th.  Little has changed:

 

 

And "we" build in the flood plain:

 No wonder the cellars are wet, nit just damp.

 

WOB 

Botany and Zoo

 Skunk -

                

                 Red Trill -

 

                                              Trout -

 

 Scouting ahead for May-hem

After the March storm

 

 wob

 

Red-breasted Sea Goose

 Well-traveled from the South

 Resting for the North

 WOB

Caught out

 Flash - Lyrid, lyric?

"Astronomer - moon lighting"

PAN SOHO Comet 

 

Or in pictures:

 

 

Lyrids 2026 campaign

- don't know anything lyrical

 Technically, there is only this "Moon", all the others are satellites, and those going around the Earth are called artificial satellites. However, in most cases the meaning and intent is clear - and astronomers don't publish dictionaries.

 So these dancing objects are the 4 Galilean satellites of Jupiter, They are bright enough to be visible to the unaided eye if it were not for the brightness of Jupiter nearby. If one can hold binoculars steady enough one can see them in 8 X 40s or better.

 

 

 Too much moonshine?

 

WOB 

Spring sprang a leak

 Road under water:

Heron,

 

 

Osprey

 

 fly over

Fishing the flooded

 

 WOB