Keeping With The Times

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Friday Finds: The Colours of My World

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If not for the evidence found in this little fellas coat, I would say that winter is not going away this year.
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Rabbit, Spring

And if not for these …

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and if not for these …

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It’s been a cold, snowy, gray/brown week. But also a happy, productive week.

I finished up a tutorial, went for lunch with the ladies and visited a greenhouse!! where I bought some sweet little succulents. I felt overwhelmed with happiness and anticipation of the new gardening season that is sure to come, right?

As this is the Easter week-end, hubby and I will be spending some time with our family (so excited).

I hope you have a wonderful and happy Easter!

Friday Finds

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Here are just a few of the extraordinary things that I found this week…

A nasturtium and a marigold that I dug out of the garden about a month ago and put into a pot on the deck are rewarding me with a profusion of new growth.

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Crispy and colourful leaves on the driveway leave no doubt as to what is on it’s way.

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Morning sunlight streaming through the trees and onto the dewy grass.

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Some beautiful light shining into a farmyard.

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This slippery salamander was on the road as I walked to meet my friends. It seemed to be frozen, so I had to push it along to the ditch so that it wouldn’t get run over. In the ten years that I’ve lived here I’ve never seen one until now.

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It was a beautiful week.

Friday Finds at Kim Klassen dot com

Pine Grosbeak

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I’m not looking…
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…talk to me…
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…I’m listening…
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…OK, you’ve got my attention …
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…but keep talking…
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…OK… I’m looking…
Look who graced our yard this weekend!
One of the larger members of its family, the Pine Grosbeak is a bird of the boreal forests, found across northern Eurasia and North America, and south into the mountains of western Canada and the United States. A large, unwary finch, it makes periodic winter irruptions into southern Canada and northern United States. It is the largest and rarest of the “winter finches.”
~All About Birds~

A prickly situation . . .

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Last night just as I was heading to bed I was astonished to see this fella coming out of the trees and into our yard! OK, what is THAT? oh, it’s a porcupine!

Run to get my camera (battery has one bar left) and my card is in the computer. Run to the computer, get the card, insert in camera, set up tripod . . . start shooting!

I couldn’t believe my eyes when he started to climb up the bird feeder, and with ease, albeit a tight squeeze once he got there. He didn’t get much to eat so he left quite soon, vanishing into my flower bed. After he was a long way off I went out on the deck and tried to take some photos without the window between us. He heard the camera clicking and sat right up and faced me. It was a bit spooky and I had bad dreams last night.

I’m going to be a lot more careful when I go wandering through the yard from now on. Note that these photos were taken with the ISO cranked all the way up to 1600 so they are quite grainy – it was almost dark when I took these.

You can check out Hinterland Who’s Who for some interesting facts.

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Starling Aerobatics

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The other evening we were driving down a side road when we came across these starlings getting ready to settle for the night. It was a totally unexpected performance and was it ever amazing! We’d never seen it before so of course we stopped and I proceeded to take twenty five photos! I found this video on YouTube if you want to check it out – very interesting!