We got a laugh out of this. It sums up peoples’ attitudes at this period of late winter.
Mirror, mirror
Achilles is the only one of our three dogs who regularly uses, looks in, a mirror to observe. Here he is on the bed watching me photograph him. Chili continues doing this after I enter the room and he can look directly at me.
Family portrait of sorts, and endurance
Like the maple tree all five of us reached out to the sun, enjoying some time outside. We have endured a long, cold, snowy winter. It isn’t over yet, we will have more cold and snow to endure. Yet I think the most brutal and hardest spells are behind us. Winter’s end is closer, each day spring is one day closer. A cardinal was caroling in our Manitoba maple day before yesterday.
Stretching
The other day, this grand maple tree across the road reached out. It stretched out, straining to reach, grasp what warmth the sun had to impart. On a minus 10C day nearing the end of a long and cold winter, that warmth was very welcome. We joined the maple tree.
ETA: I neglected to include the photo!
Achilles and Kendal
Such different temperaments, different personalities. Achilles is (adn I’m anthropomorphizing) deferential, gentle, graceful. Kendal by contrast is bluff, assertive, physical, clumsy. Both are deeply valued, deeply loved companions.
It does dry
We hang the laundry in all temperatures unless it’s precipitating. Yesterday was sunny with low humidity and even with a -10 temperature, this laundry got mostly dry.
Junco
In the middle of a snowfield, this Dark-eyed Junco finds the bit of suet I dropped.
The Colour of Eggs
A co-worker recently gave me a dozen eggs from her mothers’ flock of Ameraucana (sp?) hens. Don’t know that I have ever seen blue or green eggs before. Pretty and utilitarian.
Face plant.
No, not a face plant. Faye busted me stretched out capturing a ground-level view of light and shadow.
Adapting
These ‘weeds’ live in a very harsh environment – on the beach where the wind constantly blows. Thursday it may have been blowing 70 kph or more. The sun bakes down, winter and summer, radiating intense energy. The temperature varies from -25C to +30C throughout the year.
Yet these ‘weeds’ will almost certainly revive, bloom, reseed. They will live, thrive, because they adapt. They live in this environment, they adapt to it. They remind me that life, living, is about adapting to, accepting unpleasant as well as pleasant situations.
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