It's the last week of April but temperatures are still below normal. Snow in the morning, or blazing earlier and earlier sunrise? Hyacinths seem to burst all at once, worried that they won't be able to complete their show slowly. Other purples lie low. Daffodils just make the deadline, symbolizing April as Fight Cancer Month...
Birds continue to get attention. Our solitary limping female turkey has become a pet. (Any naming suggestions --- Solo? Gimpy? Fox Bait?) Grackles gang up like shiny thugs. One of the sparrows looks like it has a bike helmet on, with stripes. The annual bird rescue service has started, this time with a flicker that should have flicked before it hit the glass. And the last pic is a mystery bird ---- phoebe? Eastern Kingbird? Any ornithologists out there?
The yardwork is one area that's normal --- there's always something. That chip pile at the barn is getting smaller. The Gardener is looking closely for signs of asparagus. And in the spring a young man's fancy turns to --- his first car washes. Yay!!
In town the protocol is curbside delivery or line up at safe distancing. At least the food sources are available (and toilet paper is reappearing!). After a self-trim, the Kitchen Queen gets her idle hands busy with chickens --- before and after. Throw in a tray of pumpkin tarts and the house is smelling like the best diner in town (which it always has been --- normal!!).
It's the 6th week of official cautions and safeguards against COVID 19. Won't be normal for a long time, if ever. That makes some sights really welcome: a Coast Guard patrol and the season's first lake freighter. You can tell The Saginaw is full by how low it's riding in the bay. And here's a sight for travel dreamers --- the first jet contrail in a long long time. Going anywhere soon??
Birds continue to get attention. Our solitary limping female turkey has become a pet. (Any naming suggestions --- Solo? Gimpy? Fox Bait?) Grackles gang up like shiny thugs. One of the sparrows looks like it has a bike helmet on, with stripes. The annual bird rescue service has started, this time with a flicker that should have flicked before it hit the glass. And the last pic is a mystery bird ---- phoebe? Eastern Kingbird? Any ornithologists out there?
The yardwork is one area that's normal --- there's always something. That chip pile at the barn is getting smaller. The Gardener is looking closely for signs of asparagus. And in the spring a young man's fancy turns to --- his first car washes. Yay!!
In town the protocol is curbside delivery or line up at safe distancing. At least the food sources are available (and toilet paper is reappearing!). After a self-trim, the Kitchen Queen gets her idle hands busy with chickens --- before and after. Throw in a tray of pumpkin tarts and the house is smelling like the best diner in town (which it always has been --- normal!!).
It's the 6th week of official cautions and safeguards against COVID 19. Won't be normal for a long time, if ever. That makes some sights really welcome: a Coast Guard patrol and the season's first lake freighter. You can tell The Saginaw is full by how low it's riding in the bay. And here's a sight for travel dreamers --- the first jet contrail in a long long time. Going anywhere soon??
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