and ladies are walking around the park dressed like this. Some are attempting it in high heels – sometimes abandoned and carried as accessories. I wished this beautiful woman “ Eid Mubarak”and was rewarded with permission to photograph her and to use the photo in my blog. I did not want to intrude on the…

After some reflection and a bit of googling I am sure that black water bird I saw yesterday in Angrignon Park is a cormorant. Fits with my image of loons in pristine northern lakes!

Waiting for this number to come up. After exactly three months something might be done about à diagnosis of a “ mass” in my abdomen. No, this will not be what a witty friend of mine calls an”organ recital” but even writers have bodies, those miraculous, mysterious organisms about which we lucky ones usually don’t…

I always put my hands on this willow and thank it and another one close by. À poem I wrote about them long ago got published and I thank them for that. Today I thanked them for showing me spring at last The birds were singing away – except for these two ducks who were…

Came today. They came late which meant I had to stay in on a sunny, relatively warm day. They were characters, the two who did the actual physical work were wiry chaps who wasted no time in removing a winter’s grime from screens and panes. The supervisor was a chubbier type who took a great…

He’s the guy I have to thank I guess for a beautiful opportunity to see spring birds. Not many, mind but the wonderful thing was it was finally…..warm! I brought bird seeds and timid chickadees took their time coming to my hand. The big thrill was this guy though. I know it’s not a great…

My grandchildren made these wonderful Easter eggs. It was a strange sort of Pascha. In the middle of Lent our beloved priest was “reassigned” . I’m not going to go into the whole sad story but it was really hard. I am in choir and during Holy Week there is a lot and I mean…