Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
The serene simplicity of the sea, stretched out before me. Waves washing gently ashore, turning rock slowly into smooth pebbles. Turning pebbles into sand, one grain at a time, maybe. A heron stands looing, waiting, as oyster catchers pick through the shoreline, long orange beaks probing for their next morsel. And me, the observer, where…
I remember when it was just a muddy hole. No, before that actually. When it was just a part of our property – a forgotten corner outside the fence, home to deer and thistles. Always wet – the alder and bog grass showed us that. And before that part of someone else’s property, a bigger…
A heron skims the calm grey water, chasing its own reflection across the mirror flat surface. Nearby the kingfisher trills its demand for breakfast, maybe hoping to catch one of the little fish that occasionally break the surface with a ‘plop’ I hear the whine of the gas turbine, on the ferry leaving nearby Long…
Emma here! This morning was beautiful. Frost, sunshine – and in our woods on our morning dog-walk, Flower Frost! We;ve not seen much Flower Frost these past few months – it's been a mild winter so far. For previous photos of Flower Frost click here>> The sunshine seemed to bring out all the birds in…
So as well as potatoes, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, zucchini, peas, beans, kale, watermelons (optimistic I know) etc here are some other things that we find in the veg patch: On the like list dragonflies (often perched on a garden stake) pacific tree frogs worms ladybugs other interesting and beneficial creatures!…