...the wood ducks, ( under cut for flist mercy... )

Went for a walk today with my trusty camera to record what sleepy old Whatcom Creek had become after the Great Floods of 2009... and it's a MONSTER.

( Pics below cut as usual... )

Just dashed out to do an errand or two and drove past groves of young trees clad in that ethereal pale barely-budded-leaf spring green. I drove past an apple tree whose old, gnarled, twisted, crabby limbs had just been covered with a bountiful blessing of white blossoms, giving it back youth and beauty and joy. I drove past delicate blossoming ( Read more... )

We detoured past our favourite fresh-produce garden stand today - they announced that they were closing for the season on October 13, and we wanted a last snatch at a nice organic cabbage or their GIGANTIC onions (I swear, they look like someone blew them up with a bicycle pump ( Read more... )

It's one of those insanely beautiful days outside. Bright sunshine. Frosty snow. Cold cold cold air. Sky that bright vivid winter blue against which the white-outlined dark green cedars stand out with the kind of clarity and light that makes me want to weep with joy and take another ten thousand photographs of the kind I've taken half a million of ( Read more... )

Went out this morning to shake down the rhododendrons and the vulnerable trees - lost a few branches the last time it came down this thick, and didn't want a repeat. CCouldn't FIND the cedar sapling, hope it's okay, it's in God's hands ( Read more... )

Just looking outside, and the maples and aspens are shedding fast - there was just a flurry of leaves that looked precisely like the snapshot of a golden blizzard.

LOVE this time of year. I do.

Returning home today in the glow of late afternoon sunlight on trees that are orange and scarlet and gold.

The next sunny day I get, me and my trusty camera are going out on an expedition...