Good morning!

Happy Easter everyone and Happy spring!

It is a glorious sunny morning here on the Island and the

dawn chorus was full on this morning...

...robins, woodpeckers, swallows, sparrows, towhees, hummingbirds

going about the business of spring.

My mom has a cockatiel who, although never had a mate,

continues to lay 'blanks'.

She saves them and gives them to me to decorate some of the

many nests I've found during the winter...

 I don't know how but they never get rotten, they just dry out inside

making them a perfect little prop...

here's a few in a felted 'pea green boat' I made for a project some day...

This glass egg is beautiful with the iridescent light cast through it...

My sister-in-law and I found this abandoned nest one winter full of eggs...

And what would Easter be without a bunny?

Hope you enjoy this day with family and friends and welcome

the new world around you.

p.s

When I came in the house after our walk this morning I heard this song

and had to share it with you...a little song for Sunday...

 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06gAdro-62E



The Season...

We'll be going back east in a week to Toronto for Christmas to be with my

daughter and her fiancee in their new house!

It'll be so much fun to be in the big city where I grew up, the lights,

the cold, maybe some snow and to be there with Tom where he grew

up as well. We can go and visit all the old neighbourhoods

and share with each other some childhood memories.

So even though we'll be away, I still like to decorate around

the house. For one thing we have people coming to stay here for

2 weeks and I'd like to make it festive for them and secondly,

I love to celebrate the season.

Things are different at this time of year.

Leaves that once dressed the trees and shrubs are gone and unveil

the beauty of the colour of the branches and their texture...

willow...

...the delicate huckleberry...

...the pine cones coated in sweet smelling, sticky sap...

...birds nests once hidden by the bushes and leaves, now empty, revealing

their secret places...

(these are rebuilt every spring as part of the mating ritual)

...and the trees and shrubs who keep this place so green all year round...

It rarely gets cold enough for skating here but a little bit of wishful thinking doesn't hurt...

...and a little tribute to the animals...

Time to check the fire and have a cup of tea!

 

 

 

 



All's well...

Remember this post ?

Seems the house hunters were successful in raising a little family.

Yesterday I heard peeping from the nest box

and spotted this fat little one...

Calling for mom and dad to come and feed him...

I watched for about 20 minutes and then had to go to work but

seems like the chicks are just about ready to fly off.

Good luck in the big wide world!!!