spring

Pink Blossom and Snow

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Yesterday, I saw my first twig-toting crow of the season, heralding the start of nesting season.

Plum blossoms bloomed a full month early, and humans are considering spring wardrobe and patio-dining options. The crows, clearly, think it’s spring — so we were all a bit surprised to see Vancouver get its first snowfall of the entire winter this morning.

Still, we had fun, the crows and I. Especially this youngster who spent at least ten minutes trying to catch every single falling flake in her beak.

She seemed determined to catch them all — great goalie potential!

Lou seemed a bit dubious about the white stuff at first …

But soon got into the swing of things!

There was a special kind of beauty, seeing the big snowflakes dancing with the pink blossoms.

The snow is all melted now, so it seems as if I might have dreamed the whole thing.

I’ll be back on the lookout for twig-carrying crows tomorrow!

 

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Some Flowers For You

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I’m sorry I haven’t been posting a lot here lately.

This is partly because, like everyone else, I’m struggling with the enormity of what’s going on in the world.

Also, I’m finally, finally making a little progress with my book about crows, and I need to keep my head involved in that as much as I possibly can.

These two things are still standing in my way— but I thought I could at least send you a few flowers.

I traditionally post images of some of the early blooming hellebores in my garden on social media around this time of year  — offering a little hope of spring around the corner. They are always displayed in a little green vintage bowl I picked up at a thrift shop many years ago.

Today, however, I suddenly felt that this bowl was no longer big enough for all the good wishes I needed to send, so I took myself off to my local thrift store especially to find a bigger vessel.

I found a big, beautiful, shallow glass bowl that was just perfect.

So here, just for you  …

As I was photographing the bowl from different angles, the flowers kind of reminded me of a party … remember those?

Everyone all dressed up …

All the different types of people you might meet in a big gathering of strangers …

How you might hesitate and try to decide who looks most approachable in the crowd …

Colour, joy, friends, love, festivity … wishing us all more of these.

And, above all, peace.

 

 

 

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Random Wednesday Beauty

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Just a quick little post today as I have to turn my hand to cake-making shortly. Wish me luck, as I’m a bit of a hit and miss baker these days, due to lack of practice.

But it’s my husband’s 68th birthday tomorrow, so a cake must be made, since no shopping can be done. The Mississippi Mud Cake contains bourbon, so how bad could it be, really?

I always like walking in alleyways, just because they off an interesting view of the neighbourhood, and are full of randomly dilapidated beauty.

Now they have the added advantage of fewer people, so higher score on the social distance-o-meter.

Unusually crowded alleyway moment.

Topographical view of a verdant landscape.

Those colours are almost as good as a tropical vacation. Feel free to squint your eyes and pretend its palm trees and a Caribbean sea.

Blue and Gold, Van Gogh colours in an old wheelbarrow.

Meanwhile, on our front street, the Spring Thing is going ahead as scheduled, in spite of everything.

 

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