Growing with gratitude for life's challenges
We managed a four-day vacation, travelling north to visit friends near Muskoka. Lovely, calm days spent waterside, catching up on our lives. As a side trip, we visited Severn Falls, Big Chute Marine Railroad. A simple. yet effective, construction for moving boats from one lake to another. Amazing to watch.
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Our Ukrainian roommate loves to garden. Just three pops of colour she has planted to brighten her vegetable beds.
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Our sunflowers attracted a few young birds – finches, I think. This one was fascinated with the zip tie holding up the plants.
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Hey Lady, since when did this become an equal opportunity feeder?
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Hard to pick favourites when it comes to birds. I love the shocking contrast of the White-Crowned sparrow’s head feathers. The cowbird is not a usual sight at our feeders, so a nice welcome. Waking up to find a pair of bobolinks in our yard was a first for me. I never tire of our […]
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Clearly conspiratorial, these two young groundhogs have been menacing our vegetable garden and now are plotting to defy gravity apparently – one as the lookout and the other, well: I did look it up and they are part of the squirrel family. A new one for me.
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How do we face each day? What determines outlook? Is it personality or lived experience that colours perspective? Current circumstances have limited my range of activities, including those I do to distract myself. I forgive myself for any feelings of drudgery, and yet, despite ego’s self-pity, I find my natural curiosity pokes it nose into […]
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The children were decked out in their finest, and polished in their performances. An Easter event combining Ukrainian tradition with Canadian touches. It was a thank you for the volunteers who help the children with homework. I was the MC. Rounds of applause and smiles all around and then it was time for tea, coffee, […]
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I try not to pick favourites amongst the many birds that grace our backyard feeders, but there are just some that always manage to take my breath away. The red-bellied woodpecker is one of them. This beauty is anxious and tends to fly away at any movement from inside the house, so I have patiently […]
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Skies are moody things-here above open water emotions on display (Photos from our recent trip to Nova Scotia. The first photo was taken en route to Lunenberg, and then second overlooking Oak Island. If any of you watch The Curse of Oak Island, yes, it’s that one. Appropriately ominous clouds set the stage. Thanks Hammad […]
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One Woman's Quest II 