Sharing What We Love To Do
The American Goldfinch made their way to our place, and we were fortunate to get a few photos!
The apples trees were in full bloom! And if we have no frost from now ’til September (🤞), we should have a bountiful crop!!
The Rock (Wild) Clematis were also in full bloom!
Spring Storms! Here’s a panoramic out in our pasture… NW on the left to SE on the right.
Here’s our true “survivor cat” – the oldest of our critters, we’ve had Miss Nala for about 14 years! Pretty long-lived for a Farm Cat!!
And, Aengus is the “baby” of our bunch at 3 years old!
Lots of birds have arrived back for the Summer! Here’s a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak in our Apple Tree:
The Chickadees are with us year-round, but seem to multiply in the Spring… hum… it is the Season of the Birds And The Bees… maybe that explains it! 😆 This little Chickadee is in our White-Flowering Plum:
With some warmth and a bit of rain, everything in the woods and gardens started to take off in late May!
The Wild Clematis started to open (left), and the male & female catkins are on the Green Alders (right):
One variety of Wild Mushroom is growing:
And, the Bam (Balsam Poplar) leaves are at all stages of coming out!
The trees are blossoming! In the first picture is Forsythia (left), Mayday (top right) and Lilac (bottom right):
Here’s our White-Flowering Plum (left) and Pink-Flowering Plum (right):
And, flowers are coming in the gardens too! The one on the left, I’m not sure what it’s called. 😕 In the center is Forget-Me-Nots, and on the right is a Viola:
The leaves really popped out between May 11th and 14th!!
And how do they look today? Well… a nasty, cold SE wind blew in on the 15th (and is still hanging around) — everything has stalled out in the growth department. Blossoms will show eventually, maybe before the end of the month!
And not the kind we really want…. fortunately we only saw the evidence of our visitor, we didn’t actually see him!!
Sliding in the mud!
Have you figured out who our “visitor” was??? A Grizzly Bear!!!!!!
Track 2…
Track 3…
Chickadees in the Plum Tree!
Spreading my tail feathers and showing off for the ladies…
Cleaning myself up…
I am handsome…
A couple years ago, Brian made us several Blue Bird Houses…
So far, the Tree Swallows have been using the Houses… they arrive here before the Blue Birds and get first dibs!!
Now that the snow is gone (again), we cleaned out the Houses so they can be used this year…. and, one set of parents abandoned their nest and eggs last year!
Katie treed a cat… but not one of ours!!!!
This lynx was ~35′ from the house….
In the Spring of 2014, we saw a nesting pair of Great Horned Owls here. We never found the nest, but we did see the juvenile in July…
In the Spring of 2015, we had TWINS!!!!
And, last night we heard two Great Horned Owls “chatting” to each other quite close to the house… maybe we have a nesting pair here again this year!! We’ll be keeping our eyes open!!
Not unusual for Spring in Alberta… we got dumped on!!! I was able to get some photos before the dogs tracked the yard…
And, I was able to get a couple good ones of a couple of our 4-legged family…
