Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Well, as much as I love chocolate - whether you're gnostic, plain spiritual or religious – that's not really what Easter is about. So, we decided on a different Easter gift for each other this year. Bees! Mason bees to be precise. They are small native bees – that are out and about much earlier than…
So, it started last Summer when we first moved here. There was a period of about 2 months where Starsky (our 12 year old toothless cat) was catching mice, shrews and voles almost daily. Some lived, some died. The shrews were cutest – tiny with long, bendy noses. Anyhow I digress. Hiatus. Then in February…
Well, in the last couple of days a few of our daffodils have come out, I've seen Bumble bees, Rufous hummingbirds at the feeder (back from Mexico) and today I actually ate lunch in the sunshine on the deck. FABULOUS! It's amazing how once you start growing food and being closer to nature how important…
The Frogs have started!!! I am VERY excited. Last night our pacific tree frog chorus started! We share a pond with a neighbouring property and basically, for a period over the Spring and well into the Summer, every evening as soon as it begins to go dark, there is a fabulous chorus from the frogs! Spring is…
