Life goes on despite COVID restrictions, climate catastrophe, and family disconnect. How about some comfort food?! Let's see ---- perogies, chocolate, and pie should do the trick...
The spring bird migration surge has passed, with fewer birds overall and fewer exotic species like buntings or warblers. But the everyday locals are still numerous, colourful, and awesome.
Yardwork continues. Spread the chips. Rake the mulch. Plant willows in the damp spots where they should thrive.
A daytrip to the Toronto 'hood. Best Chinese, but the rain spoiled the Beach boardwalk picnic.
Seeding going on in different styles. Hogging the road down below, a tractor seeds by the bushel full. Up top, the Single Seeder does it by the handful. Carefully prepped rows or beds. Some up in the garden, some down on a new part of the sunny slope. Get growing --- we need the colours!
Fewer birds, but more mammals --- especially at dusk. Bats flutter and dive into clouds of bugs. Raccoons scavenge whatever. And a strange creepy repeated squealing turned out to be our fox, barely visible in the twilight claiming her territory. Would have kept me away!
Several visits by what seems to be a large black bear. At night it lifts and smashes hanging feeders and birdbaths. Large paws crush the plastic laundry drain. But even in broad daylight it raids the compost bin and gulps hummingbird formula. Join in, everybody, let's just howl at the moon...
