Sunday, June 17, 2018

CAKE, SNAKE, NAMESAKE

Birthday week included a cake with the sisters. How many candles to blow out?(Hint:What was the first year of the Mustang: 19??) The cheeky card showed the best seat in the house...



Back at the pond, evidence of a water snake getting larger. Watch out ---who's pond is it?




The peonies are bursting as they climb to the sun . This raccoon climbs too. It bursts --- on bird feed.


Two-thirds of our woodlot are ash trees, white or red. Not hard to tell which colour this one is, with clumps of thick red keys. The surprise is that ash trees give off thick pollen too. After a rain shower, the road is covered with ash pollen like pixie dust on a runway. Achoo!



But all those ash trees are withering and will die off from the invasion of emerald ash borers. So the chain saw is getting a workout clearing and thinning. The trees are high and skinny because they have to reach for the sunlight above the canopy. And they grow fast ---- as nephew John M used to say, "Count the rings!"



These abilities, mental or physical, come from my father. I thank and honour Walter every day by thinking and doing. On this Father's Day, I'm forever grateful and proud to be a Wyszynski.









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