We went into town, I haven't taken many photos, but here is an update to this local build.
I wrote some about this new senior's housing and residence built recently in Perth. They have built Tay River Healthcare, and are adding buildings for phase 2. They've put student artwork into the building! Perth student artists create masterpieces for Tay River Health Centre.PHASE 2
There is some controversy about the privacy fencing (Dec. 27, Mar. 16, 2022, March 31 ) for homes facing the property. They are working on it!
I toodled on down to the frogpond. The wonderful melt it had begun has reversed somewhat. There is evidence that the turkeys have been sitting on my dock. This is the latest photo:
I saw signs of the tulips, as well! Soon they will be up and blooming.
Ditch Diving
I spent a couple of hours picking up trash from our ditches. Some years they've been quite wet, and I wore my non-leaky rain boots just in case. (They were a gift!) The ditch was quite dry, which doesn't bode well for Spring flowers.
I picked up a good load of stuff. Mostly beer cans. Ironically, I was picking up what was obviously debris from a car incident, when suddenly an ambulance flips on their sirens. I've a low startle reflex and I jumped, covering my ears. Some of the trucks really do well over the 80 km/hour speed limit and it unnerves me, but I carried on. I probably have another couple of hours to do. "Nevertheless, she persisted."
Back up at the house, Cinnamon was observing his front yard. The Orchid cactus is blooming (lower left) and the squash, pumpkins, zucchini and zinnia are coming along.
turkey tails from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.
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10 comments:
Hari OM
Yeah, the change from winter to spring isn't necessarily the cleanest or prettiest, mud often being the predominant feature! We have had somewhat of a reversal of weather here and the Bumble Bees I was seeing three weeks back are nowhere in sight the last few days. Their turn will come again... YAM xx
C=Connections
...the signs of spring are lovely to see.
When I lived in the country I always made it a spring chore to pick up the beer cans, coffee cups and fast food wrappers but it always gave me a sense of dissatisfaction with my fellow human beings.
I will have to ask Sha about the fence. She hasn’t mentioned anything, not that this is in her bailiwick.
Oh the Tom Turkey is so fun strutting his stuff. Sorry the ditch had all those beer cans. Maybe that's why I prefer to drink beer out of bottles...association. But my lips do prefer the feel of the bottle.
You are a good neighbour to be out cleaning like that.
Just when my tulips were starting to shoot out, we had SNOW. Not sure what, if anything survived. Still a bit cold out to take photos. I often pick up water bottles, soda and beer cans, and lots of plastic bags from my front yard. Nice of you to clean the ditches.
Cinnamon has a good perch.
Cinnamon looks to be sitting very comfortably observing his front yard :)
All the best Jan
Nice photos ^^
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