Good morning to all of you, my friends, on this beautiful holiday Monday!  And even if it isn’t a holiday where you live, Happy Monday to everyone!  It is another wonderful morning here, though it is cloudy right now.  The forecast said nothing about clouds for us today, only sunshine.  So hard to believe that with all of our modern technology, they still can’t see a large area of clouds in the sky. 

Sir George was here just shortly after 5am this morning, sitting on the bird feeder and calling quietly for me.  Just letting me know he’s there and waiting for his breakfast.  But Lady Pearl is likely sitting on the nest now so perhaps he wants to give her breakfast in bed today.  Yes, he is actually very good at sharing his food with her, even when they both would show up together.

Yesterday morning another herring gull showed up which was about the same size as Sir George.  After a short “discussion”, the newcomer actually chased Sir George off the feeder.  However, he was a bit nervous about me standing there so he only grabbed a bit of food and was gone quickly.  Then Sir George came back and finished getting his breakfast.  Never thought any other gull would chase him away, but perhaps the other gull is younger.

And now to continue our walk from yesterday, we are still down at the river…

Looking up towards the path from the rocky shoreline we saw yesterday.

Leaves on the smaller shrubs are coming out nicely now and even the trees are showing some nice green as the young leaves are now beginning to grow.  Always exciting to see that new green in the trees, showing that summer is not far away now.

Here the sun dappled path continues through the pines past the bench where we sat yesterday looking down the river.

It is such a beautiful time of year, as everything comes to life once again little by little for us to enjoy.  I hope you have been enjoying our little walk yesterday and today.  Have a wonderful day everyone, stay safe and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2020 Steve McLeod.

Hello once again everyone and welcome to part 2, something different for our daily pics today.  This is a long weekend for us and a very important weekend normally.  It is the beginning of our tourist season which this year is the beginning of nothing since no tourists are coming.  It is also the beginning of fishing season.  Plus it is generally considered the beginning of the gardening season too.  This is also a tough one since things need to be done online right now, though greenhouses and garden centers will be open again this week.  So that will be nice.  What a beautiful day to be by the river, sitting on the bench, looking down the river.  Not much wind, the sun shining brightly, a few clouds here and there.

In front of the bench the rock goes nearly straight down to the river, but it’s only about 20 feet.  The water is very low right now, it has gone down over 2 feet in the last 2 weeks.

So it’s possible to go down to the rocky shore and walk around now.  This area, above, would normally be under about 3 feet (about 1 meter) of water right now.  It’s nice to sit on one of the rocks close to the water’s edge and enjoy the view.

In the above pic, look at the closest tree, you can see a dark ring near the base.  That is the level of the water when this area of the river froze along the shore.  There isn’t enough current along here so the river does freeze along the shore here.  Then going up from the dark ring you can see another area of the tree with no moss, then a clear marking where the moss begins again.  That’s the height of the river back in September, 8 feet higher than it is now.

That’s it for this one, but we will continue again tomorrow with more spring pics to enjoy.  I hope you all continue to enjoy today, stay safe and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

©2020 Steve McLeod.