Gary has been busy the last number of Saturday mornings creating a new walkway from our back porch to our barn where he has his workshop and office.  We discovered we had quite a few flagstones on our property so all we needed to purchase was several bags of limestone to build the foundation up and bags of pea gravel to go between the stones.  It took a bit of...

It was a warm, beautiful blue-sky day.  Gary and I were out boating on the Moose River with our son Rob, his wife Jess and granddaughter, Bella to find some bald eagles during our visit north.  All of a sudden, we spotted several large white-headed birds with dark brown bodies flying out from the evergreens in the distance. These strong creatures of God looked so...

Have you ever seen a field of buckwheat growing with tiny white flowers?  It’s beautiful!  Gary and I visited the Lavender Farm just outside of Milton recently – one of our favourite spots.  Near a field of purple lavender buckwheat had been planted on well-drained soil.  The contrast between the purple and white was lovely.  I have never...

“Hey buddy!  Slow down and don’t be so noisy!”  I was yelling at a little brown wren perched on our seed station just outside our kitchen window.  He was twittering at the top of his lungs with his mouth wide open, flapping his wings and then flitting back and forth to the spruce trees at the side of our house. He just kept singing and singing and...

Gary and I have been back at plogging which means collecting garbage while on our walks throughout Churchville this spring.  People (Can I call them pigs?) must be very lazy and self-centred if they can’t walk a few steps to throw their refuse in the garbage cans in the parks instead of on the ground.  Oh well, I guess we are not going to change them.  And it is...

Spring is here and so are the cherry blossoms.  The Japanese have celebrated cheery blossoms for hundreds of years as a symbol of new life.  Viewing these pretty flowers is a special event in spring for them.  In 1959, the Japanese ambassador to Canada presented 2000 trees to Toronto as a gift of friendship from Tokyo.  Many of these can be seen,...

A path at the back of our property between our neighbour’s lot and ours is well worn by feral cats, squirrels, a periodic raccoon and then one day we watched a very slow, wobbly Virginia opossum saunter on by on it.  What a surprise and very unusual for an animal that is generally awake throughout the night scrounging for food!  I think this creature...