Saturday 9 March 2024

Wool Gathering

 In Scotland, playing golf often meant searching for the golf ball on the fairway  among tufts of wool shed by sheep who actually were the real players on the course - I certainly was not!


 

So, today, I was woolgathering - my thoughts . when I spotted somthing that "did not belong" and yet there it was:




There on the marge of Lake Couch was  ... could it be  ... an otter?



Splish, splash, all on a Saturday as per command - director's cut!






Someone say "cute beastie"?




Don't hit me - I know I'm hansom -



Wool o' the Braids,

or

WOB

Tuesday 5 March 2024

The "true" sign of the return of Spring

 Dear Folk and Gentle People,

You want to know when Spring will appear on the ground and not as an event from a white-domed astronomer? Well, listen up

We are not concerned with Punxsutawney Phil

Nor with Wiarton Willie whose accuracy ranges from 90% for the "believers" to 25% which is worse than just random guessing - so systematic - do as I say, not as I do`.

 

Rather, look for the return of the snow birds, they know.


 (They said I was gullible - a good trait for a wise old bird - and I believed them.)



These are my "snow birds" and they were escorting the equivalent of the groundhog, the Sandhill cranes:




 



 

 
And now Spring has sprung and released ....
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Whatever that is?
 
WOB 

PS That was yesterday, Mon Mar 4 and the temperature was plus 18°C on 2 independent thermometers about 10m apart - so it must be true?

Saturday 2 March 2024

Swirls of Diamonds

 On the soles of her feet:




Colour and Black and White in memory of a friend:



And a wave frozen in time, March 5th, 2014:



wob

Thursday 29 February 2024

A request on illuminating subjects

 I am so pleased - there was a request today. Not quite Donald's ripples in space-time. But then there are parallels:


I think this is a Northern fulmar

It accompanied us for some time:




 The midnight Sun offered warm colours:




But it was when it came in close to both me and the silky ocean that  I became captivated:




And it got better:



It was so hard for me to believe what I was witnessing. I have not the imagination to clone such wonders of reflections. Sit back and enjoy what Nature offers us for free if we open our eyes:









We traveled together for perhaps 15 minutes. I on a boat, It on its wings. I would like to think it saw me. Maybe that is being conceited. I was not doing anything but wondering.


WOB

The (red) Spider

 Winter has returned,

so the gods are once again asleep.

Jeff, every day is remembrance day and I am

recalling Aug 13, 2013.

However, Will, this is not a traditional story. So I

hope you will not mind if I show it - it is not our "duet" to be

(I hope) about Spider Woman.

Vicki and I were doing our outreach prog in Killarney Prov Park.

On a tree near our tent was a red spider:



All legs but not 8?



Its body was red, and on first glance "obvious". However, as I looked at my photos I began to notice other patches of identically coloured reds - maybe funghi or lichen?

 I began to wonder at its "legs" - 2 are missing?




I wonder at what its experience, history was:





To all who seek to understand,


WOB