Happy Canada Day!

Hi everyone! Here we are on July 1st, Canada’s birthday. A time to celebrate this great country that we have and enjoy! From coast to coast to coast, the natural beauty of this country is immense. Just in our small area alone the flora and fauna is truly amazing, from tiny insects to large and powerful mammals.

And from incredibly tiny flowers and their equally tiny pollinators to large trees reaching toward the brilliant blue sky. It was mostly sunny this morning, now it is mostly cloudy and we could end up with some thunderstorms later this afternoon.

Hopefully that won’t materialize since most people plan their barbecues for late afternoon and it would be terrible if they got rained out. I can’t remember if I mentioned this before or not, my blogging hasn’t been too regular lately. My new neighbor has 3 cats, younger ones and all females, that have not been spayed.

That makes them more territorial and more willing to fight. The other day I was making supper and heard Muffin yowl so I thought the neighbors cats were in the hallway again. Then I heard another yowl and I knew that wasn’t Muffin, but it sounded like it was in my apartment, so I went to look.

Muffin had been on the balcony, which is normal for her, but one of the neighbors cats had found a way to get over to our side of the balcony. And she got into a fight with Muffin. My neighbor’s cats are young and Muffin is an older cat, she can handle herself with one other cat, but that one went back home and returned with the other two cats, so there were 3 of them.

Muffin would get severely hurt in a fight like that. I chased the other cats back home and talked with my neighbor, so she said she would try to watch them better. The problem could be fixed easily, but our landlord won’t do it and won’t allow me to do it either. Sigh.

Spotted Coralroot, one of our smaller wild orchids that possesses no chlorophyll, which is why it is brown.

Oh well, hopefully it won’t happen again and from now on Muffin will only go outside when I’m out there too. I am going to show you a few more of my favorite photos today to celebrate Canada Day. Have a great day everyone and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

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