Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)

View from the shore of Upper Campbell Lake, mid-island, 50°N, -125°W, filling a long valley 221 metres above sea level, mid-April, 2024. The water is low, with plants that I usually see growing with their roots in water, now sprouting through dry mud...

I walked yesterday on the shore of Upper Campbell Lake; a warm, sunny day, too bright, and I wandered down faint trails in the shade under the evergreens. There, a pair of Steller's jays found me and then followed me out onto the road, back under the...

 10 days. I've been mostly shut in, sleeping or wishing I were sleeping, promising myself to post "tomorrow", for 10 days. I'm awake now, I think.
Outside, the winter's bare branches are clothed in a pale green froth, pink and white blossoms blow in the wind, the sky and sea are blue, blue, blue. At my door, the spring flowers are almost done, and summer's offerings are leafing out. It's time I...

The day was cloudy but warm, around 10°C. I was heading out to do a bit of weeding and edge trimming. Didn't get far. A deer was browsing on the edge of the lawn next door. She stopped to look at me for a long while, not alarmed, just as if she was memorizing...