100 Days of Happiness 2020 - Day 78 - Easter Monday

[byslantedlight]

1. Livejournal extended my account for a month - that's nice of them, and that's a happy thing! *g*
2. Easter egg!
3. Bluebells!
4. A surprise slow worm, hiding under the compost bin. The black stripe means its a female, apparently. *g* I love seeing wildlife around!
5. An hour's metal detecting in the garden when the sun was out.

Comments

[hagsrus]

Thanks so much for all the outdoor pictures. I am so missing the spring rounds of the botanic gardens, and even the open parks need public transportation which is iffy at the moments.

[byslantedlight]

I must admit I'd thought of you and the botanic gardens, because I've missed your annual posts about going to see them! I'm so lucky to live somewhere with alot of outdoors at the moment - I'll keep posting the pics for you too!

[keli]

That was really nice of LJ! Glad things are going well with you!

[byslantedlight]

And lj is 21 today, I see! Wow - and I've been here nearly fifteen years myself... how on earth is that possible?!

[jat_sapphire]

A slow worm! I have never seen one. I did not know a deaf adder was a legless lizard. How neat to find one! And the flowers are beautiful. Around here, it's still true that the only blooming flowers are in shops.

[byslantedlight]

Isn't it cool! *g* I don't think it's the same as a deaf adder though. There are adders in the UK too, but they're incredibly rare - I've never seen one, I don't think. I've seen a few slow worms though! *g*

You haven't got any flowers at all? That's so sad... I hope you at least get to see the ones in shops...

[jat_sapphire]

I don't know adders at all, but I looked up "slow worm" and that was my google hit. So quite probably wrong. A local chain store, Trader Joe's, has lilies and gerber daisies and chysanthemums right inside the entrance--and daffs and hyacinths (that's not spelled right, is it?) in pots, so I took deep breaths of spring, and thought about the robins I have been seeing. American robins--well, New World ones--are big bruisers, like decorative starlings, hopping agressively across the ground in case an earthworm raises its unwary head. So it is springing a bit, but no dandelions or heartsease or daffodils yet. I used to see daffs and lilacs on the west side of town, but I'm not working there any more so I have not aeen them this year. Still! It has to get warmer sometime. Nice sunshine today.

[milomaus]

And isn't she a beauty!
I just looked up a slow worm the other day, because I am listening to the Adventure series by Enid Blyton.

[byslantedlight]

Enid Blyton is where I knew about slow worms from! And oh, the Adventure series - I loved them... Maybe I should have a Blyton re-read... I only borrowed the Adventure books from the library though, I shall have to put them on my when-we're-free list... *vbg* But the Famous Five are on my shelves... *g*

[heliophile_oxon]

My heartfelt approval of all those things! Sad to say I don't think I've ever encountered a snake (or even a legless lizard, is that what slow worms are???) in the wild, only in zoos and similar :-( so that's quite wonderful indeed imo. Happy detecting!

[byslantedlight]

Yes, slow worms are legless lizards - you'd never know from looking at them, they look like snakes to me! *g* I've come across more snakes than I like in the wild (and even that's not many really). My sister and I were once walking together in the paddock, side by side - I heard a rustling and looked back to see that we'd stepped just inches either side of a massive tiger snake, all coiled up and asleep in the sun (luckily for us!) I had to kill one once too, also in Australia, obviously, because it was up in the garden, and there were kids around. Very nervy - you had to sneak up behind it and chop its head off with the spade... Although my Uncle D had a different approach - one came sliding up from the river when he was visiting, and he approached it head on, waited until it had sat back on its haunches to to the hypnosis thing, and then walloped it over the head that way! Eeep! I like the slow worms much better... *vbg*