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Gold
Some times you look out the window and the world is Grey. The tones and texture are magnificent in their own right. But there are also times when can look out at the same vista and see gold. Shimmering and bright, gilding the hills, and newly forming ice. Later touches of pink will appear, but
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An unkindness?
I heard them the moment I stepped out of the House. Ravens, reveling in the wind, or each other, or whatever it is that Ravens revel in. I looked up to the peak of the House to see four of them, an unkindness of Ravens, playing. They jostled for the edge of the roof's peak,
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A tisket, a tasket
A recent reader of the House sent me an email recently looking for help from Nunavumiut. She's currently in the end stages of an Art project, making baskets from scrap fabrics gleaned from every province and territory, in the provincial/territorial colours of each territory. I've copied her request here below the fold so you can
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More ‘berg pictures
This smallish iceberg has floated right into town overnight, a first since I've been here. And because one can't take too many iceberg pictures, here's the view this morning.
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Three little birdies
… sit by my doorstep. Actually there were several and these are just some pictures of a couple of them. This little guy (gal) let me get quite close. Feed me Seymour Feed me. That’s quite a mouthful.
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Yeah, it figures.
Let’s see, the forecast for Friday for the past five days has been Sunny. Now that I’m actually able to get out camping for the first time in gawd knows how many years, what is it? Oh well, not going to let a little deluge stop me. If you need me tomorrow and Saturday you’ll
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Countdown to the night.
On the day of the year when most Northern Hemispherian's thoughts bounce around the longest day of the year, or the start of summer, mine are decidedly elsewhere. For today our eternal sun has reached it's apex, and is now descending towards night. To be sure it is a ways off, it will be another
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Cackling Geese
For the past couple of days I've been out trying to get decent views of three geese down stream from our water lake. I was out for a drive on Monday with Hilary, trying to see what new species had arrived for the spring and to work on the Canadian Wildlife Service checklists I've been
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The life of the giveaways
Once again, the generous and prodigous bloggers over at 10,000 Birds, Mike, Charlie and Corey are giving away copies of a book. The book is The Life of The Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathon Rosen, recently reviewed at 10,000 Birds by Mike. They're giving away five (count 'em) copies of the