Steaming heat again and we decided to go somewhere different this weekend – not far, just along the Parc nature de Cap St-Jacques where we wandered the wooded edges of the river and caught some breezes (and hatched a plot to buy a couple of kayaks – but we’ll save that for another day).
Plenty of bird [...]
Back to some garden birding at last … we were sitting by the garden window last night with glasses of Friday Night Cocktail in hand when we heard and then saw a northern Flicker perched on one of the maple trees. A handsome bird and worthy of a photograph but they are also very sensitive to [...]
Spent a couple of hours in the Arboretum for the exercise and also because it’s “my day” to take pictures for the Year in the Arboretum project today. Glad we went … we were supposed to have rain this morning but instead we had cooler weather with sunshine. Ottawa – not far away – had a [...]
Today has been warm and sunny and despite the shrinking heaps of dirt snow you could almost believe that winter is over (rain forecast for tomorrow, though – don’t get too excited).
The garden has been busy – the Snowdrops have really come into their own and we received visits from the pre-Easter Bunny (a very timid [...]