`This wasn't unexpected. Nobody here should change tires for Summer before May 24, and dear Kate did before April 24. So there! Her fault. I have not even booked my appointment, although I know when my 2nd Covid shot is due.
And the results can be seen.
Two hours earlier, before hearing what Kate did, it was still noticeable:
I wonder what else can happen?
WOB
Welcome to a brave new Spring, 2021.
Impressions from yesterday:
What great horns you have!
The similarity of the 2 nests suggests time-sharing?
And now for something more down to Earth - mutual admiration? The heron had just caught a fish and the mergansers are courting. Their heads are nodding together as they swim toward me.
Am I ever fortunate, not wise, just lucky to be alive and a part of the more important programme.
WOB
I have been searching without success - but some of my misses have been interesting, at least to me.
From Mothering Sunday, May 2013 at Grant's Woods:
Maybe I should admit to be being colour blind ?
Or ought I try "Black and white and read all over"?
wobbily OB
I love my sister - she is so nice to me! I love Vicki too. How lucky can one person be?
Still. Anne teases me about those red birds she calls Cardinals. They are always singing for her
before I arrive for a visit or - you can guess - just after I leave. And it is not as though I dislike the St Louis Cardinals, either.
So, Anne, I saw this not-quite-red bird, not quite a cardinal with burnt "buffalo wings".. And not even yesterday, either,
Actually there were two:
Some day I may graduate to a completely red bird!
WOB
For someone who has experienced
And something to cool the savaged or ravaged brow -
Schlaf gut lieber Volker,
kluge alte Vogel
This is a story for Jitka and Rosie, Armin and Paul, who visited us in August 2011.
Findlingen_found_in_Canada65 shows the women in alphabetical order, but not the men - so you can now identify the cast.
They were staying in Hammock Harbour
to get to our home.
Now astronomers have been encountering bears for ever. And they looked to me for advice.
"Bears are camera shy, - so always have your camera ready "to shoot" them."
They were not reassured by me and asked for the drawbridge to be raised, or at least turned so the bear could not cross the Narrows,
We do our best to please our tourists, as you can see. And of courses, bears are very respectful:
Still, I had to walk them home at night because then they were afraid of the dark - but not any more.
So I don't know what they would think of the bear I saw yesterday, not 200m from where I live.
It has been a very long time since I have been this close to a bear - and lived to tell about it.
I guess it pays to be a member of the Orillia Naturalists - in good standing!
Until the next time,
Stay safe, and keep your mask up,
WOB
It was bitterly cold recently. Last night -10°C with a strong penetrating wind. Vicki was holding my hand while I tried to see the zodiacal light.
Bass Lake:
Left Line 15 for a darker road at the end of Line 13, Not sure if this is what I wanted or light pollution.
^ ^ ^
Aldebaran Mars - Pleiades Zodiacal --->?
There is light pollution in the South-west:
Can you see the 3 red objects? Betelgeuse, Aldebaran, both stars, and Mars at the top edge. Almost in a straight line.
And would suffice.
So I went out again today to see more ice and wind chill caught in the act:
It was cloudy tonight, some snow drifting onto the balcony - so no expeditions tonight.
Sleep well,
WOB
