The birdsong alone is worth a very early morning start to the day. A switch has been turned and it's like cue the sun, the birds, and a...

 I promised a few photos of my weekend away to downtown Ottawa which according to Google maps is a 41 minute drive from here. It was excitin...

 A few photos of a reluctant spring here.. The largest turtle I've seen at our little pond. Then I realized he wasn't alone. There m...

My sole lilac tree is starting to sprout. It's very old and getting slower to bud every year. In fact I had thought it was done, and am ...

 The Phoebes are building a nest on the old speaker at the back of the house again this year...two in a row. I can watch them from my chair ...

Pouring down rain lately made for a couple of  drab mornings. One of those mornings, I used my thrifted umbrella, the one that is kind of us...

I took this photo from the sewing room. He was so close to the window I could study his ears, which I noted moved independently of each othe...