Springtime in southern Ontario is that wonderful season when temperatures can rise to t-shirt wearing days and plummet to overnight lows of below freezing. We've been having a small string of very mild days. Friday reached 26C (79F) which is rare but wonderful for April. Spring flowers are everywhere.
My favourite is the purple crocus. They are nature's first colourful, floral promise that winter is truly over.
Let's take the full blossom in for a moment. Enjoy it because they don't last too long.
Another interesting but less attractive sign of spring is the unusual collection of items found close to shore once the pond has fully melted. This float and apple were last week's finds.
Close to dusk one day, my eye landed on this mostly-submerged branch. I liked its smooth textures and colours. It reminded me of another branch I saw just four days earlier...
... when colder temperatures formed an icy film on the pond's surface.
Life isn't just a bowl of cherries...
Evidently, it's a truckload of oranges too.
That drawer, just off to Benny's left contains something that he wants. Very badly. Once he thinks about it, he just stands beside it and stares at us, with cocked head until one of us can read his determined little mind. If we fail to notice him, he begins to emit hypersonic sounds to nudge us from across the room. Should we fail to heed his high-pitched demands, odd growly-talky noises will follow. Eventually, if a bark or two won't demand the attention he seeks, he'll begin to paw at the drawer. What do we keep in there that Benny wants so desperately? The answer is at the bottom of this recent post.
And so ends another day. This nighttime view of the silvery sliver of a moon is from Frank's back deck.These were just a few photos left over from the past few weeks which didn't seem to fit in with other posts. I'll try to serve up a fresh batch of images in a few days.
