Writing Nook

This is my favorite place at which to journal these days. Several years ago Ken gave me the black wicker bistro set for my birthday; I was delighted with it then and have been many times since. I love setting it up on our front porch in the spring and using it throughout the warm weather months. It's such an inviting place. Tea and a very cheerful verbena call me there, too.

Just Ducky

Yesterday I had a very nice, relaxing time at Stratford Park, picnicking with M'Love between morning church and afternoon choir program. While at the park, I saw another couple - this pair of mallards - enjoying the water and sun (as were a lot more birds and people). Two details I like in the pic are the way the drake's tail feathers curl and how the lady duck looks metallic. She could be a bronze statue!

The Bow in the Cloud

"That is the brightest, clearest double rainbow I have ever seen!" I'm pretty sure I have said this numerous times in my life, but I could say it again tonight. After the storm (which was a lot more wind than rain here) Ken and I stood on the deck in a few remnant raindrops and gazed at the brilliant arch spanning the orchard. In such a place, how could one not worship the Bow Maker and Promise Keeper?

Farewell Welcome

If the plant would have been meant for only last evening's party, the sign should have said "Farewell" instead of "Welcome". The way it was - a bouquet of friends saying goodbye to a lovely Sandra-flower among them - the sign will work just fine. She'll likely put it on the front porch of her new house near Tara, ON, and welcome our visits or anyone else's.

Three Cousins

When our children were young, they sometimes read books from a series called "Three Cousins Detective Club". I thought of that title when I saw the above scene on the farm this morning. Except I would dub it "Three Cousins Productive Club" in this case. These three Martin cousins were born the same year, within just a few months and days of each other. They've done a lot together over the years, but I'm pretty sure they had never done this particular activity as a threesome before: removing spent tulip plants and replacing them with geraniums in the windmill flowerbed at Martin's Family Fruit Farm.

Have A Heart

Bleeding Heart: one of my favorites among the spring flowers in my flowerbeds. This white one has its own charm beside the more familiar pink-petaled species dwarfing it. 

Troop Out For Lunch

Today's pic is another "family" I had fun observing. I was at Waterloo Park chatting with a friend at a picnic table when this gaggle waddled over. We tried to figure out the family dynamics here - seventeen young'uns with the one goose couple, only two goslings with the parents in the background and five adult geese somewhat apart from these, off-camera. Whatever the puzzling situation in our eyes, they all seemed perfectly at ease.