Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Things are greening up!

 Still no sign of the Harlequin Tabby visitor cat. That is a good thing. With the warmer weather, he might have prey closer to home. Maybe. 

Another cloudy day. Yesterday was amazingly sunny. I whipped out to take photos of the goldfish pond, beside the house. I'd hooked up the water barrel, then our rain filled it. With the cold temperature I opened the spigot to drain it overnight. 

 The gold fish pond froze overnight and the patterns were interesting. 


I went walkies the day before and checked out the frog pond. It's about 1/3 thawed. I took a drive to visit a client, and most of the lakes are open, with ice in some of the bays.



Searching for the owl (no luck!) I was amazed by the moss on the rocks in the gully.



Woody Woodpecker cardinal has been better. I don't know why I didn't think of contact paper before this. My carved bear is happy with it.

Indoors, the orchid cactus is budding up. The contact paper is good for it, since it was getting a bit burned in the window. Despite being a cactus, it doesn't do well in full sun.



9 comments:

Barbara Rogers said...

Good summary of conditions and designs from ice/water...as well as missing visitor and cactus flowers, and contact paper on windows! Have a good Wednesday!

eileeninmd said...

The cactus blooms are pretty.
Take care, have a great day!

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari Om
The promise of spring - but not quite yet! Same here. Am trying to touch base with everyone whilst staying in Aberdeen with good wifi... some of the park ups this week (and to come) are low on signal! YAM xx

Nancy J said...

Your pond and the ice, look from a distance and it could be a shoreline on a distant beach.We have about 11C today, drop to 7C at the weekend. And the solar eclipse, we do NOT get it down here. No wonder there was not a mention on the NZ news.

Cloudia said...

Thank you for bringing us along through your interesting and beautiful life. Jenn, aloha!

Jeanie said...

Those patterns in the pond are fabulous! Ha! When I saw your bear for a minute I thought it was a cat and I was thinking "How'd she get it to dress that way!"

Red said...

Spring brings us many pleasant changes.

DeniseinVA said...

Everything is looking ready to welcome spring and Percy will be happy to be back in the pond. You certainly are blessed with a lot of nature on your property. Wonderful!

Aritha V. said...

Now I'm completely taken with the orchid cactus. Does it resemble the Christmas cactus but on a larger scale?

Love the moss in the other pic.