Petals and Wings

This is another scheduled post. Right now, we're still up at Frank's family cottage. I hope to catch up with comments and return visits soon after I get back. Until then, please enjoy the following photos taken near home.



Purple and yellow wildflowers border the pond at one of my favouite resting spots.




These tiny flowers are growing on a bush in my front yard. I don't know what they're called but no doubt somebody out here does. I doubt that the bee cares.




A tiny damselfly darts around from plant to plant by my local pond.




Despite my black thumb, these white flowers are growing in my back yard.




These lovely purple Clematis are seen between the slats in the deck railing at Frank's place.




A lovely Mourning Dove perches on my plum tree in the back yard. They're not the brightest birds in the collective flock, but they sure are beautiful.




These are a couple of blossoms on my rose bush - a birthday or Mother's Day gift from my younger son last year. Frank teases me that one day, I'll post my photos as usual, and he'll speak up to say that one of them was actually one that he snapped. This may well be one of those. We've both photographed this rose bush a few times with my camera.




These lovelies are growing wild around the pond.




A skein of beautiful Canada geese in flight.




A brilliant but short-lived poppy which grew in Frank's back yard.




His garden also had a profusion of peonies earlier this season.

I won't have any more posts scheduled in advance and I'm not sure just when we'll return from the cottage. This means that the Posts of the Week will suffer yet again. I'm sorry about that but I expect it will be off and on during the course of the summer. Thanks for your understanding. And thanks for joining me on my walks. I'll catch up with all of you shortly after my return.

True Colours

"But I see your true colors shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful
Like a rainbow."
~Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly

Spring is such a colourful time of the year. Below, are a few photos of some of the many hues I've seen over the past couple of weeks. I hope you enjoy them.

Up at the pond - a fifteen minute walk from home, white water lilies are in bloom. Can you see the downy goose feather off to the right?

"Rapaciously we gathered flowery spoils
From land and water; lilies of each hue,
Golden and white, that float upon the waves,
And court the wind."
~Wordsworth

Some of the neighbours got together to share these bright red lobsters and other goodies one Saturday evening. Hopefully, the crustaceans weren't clawstrophobic - they were packed in there like sardines.

“And like a lobster boiled, the morn
From black to red began to turn”
~Samuel Butler

One of the few purple-petaled irises which made it to full bloom in my front yard, this year.

"I think it pisses god off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it"
~Alice Walker

This adorable yellow gosling was one of only two left to a mother goose up at the same place where the lily pads were blooming. They're very comfortable around people in that park, and came up on shore and settled down for a nap a few feet away from where I was sitting.

“Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold”
~Aristotle





The Blues Brothers - my handsome son, Alex holding our cool young neighbour, Winston. Both happened to be wearing blue sunglasses that day. Don't they make a cute matching set?
"Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through."
~George MacDonald

A beautiful orange poppy which grew in Frank's back yard. Their bloom time is short-lived but brilliant.

"Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow."
~Kandinsky

I found this tiny silver flower on the pavement in the park. I think it was probably a child's press-on earring. I just like the way it sparkled. I might be part cat.

"Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
~Langston Hughes

This pink peony was photographed through the opening of a chain link fence. I never saw the little insect about to land on it until after I uploaded the photos. I also have one shot which shows the insect on the flower. Go on and have a quick look at that here. I don't mind waiting.

“Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose
From out night's gray and cloudy sheath;
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.”
~Susan Coolidge

I saw these green canoes (and that red-winged blackbird) stacked up when we went for a drive near Frank's place last week. He's used to me asking him to stop so that I can take a photo. Thanks, Frank.

"The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat."
~Edward Lear

I hope you enjoyed my colourful day. Thanks for joining me.