Trailcam, flowers and birds

 I am so excited! I bought me a new trailcam. It uses Wifi and connects to the smart phone. No fiddling around with SD Cards. I can upload images directly to my iPhone and my photo stream, from the back deck. It's a game changer! 

 

You can see the camera on the purple pencil. 

The skies have been dark and ominous. 

Hellbores:

Forsythia:

I am down to one bird feeder. I am waiting for the grosbeaks to arrive before I put them away. 

In other news, Caitlin took Jordan back to Kingston. They stocked up on groceries, put together the new bed frame, Caitlin went back to Ottawa.  

Jordan made himself some shakshuka for dinner! Our country is so rich from foreign cuisine. I think Jordan got the cooking inspiration from the parental unit!

Aster was on a camping weekend with Trex, Caitlin & JL had a date night at Zoe's in the Chateau Laurier. 

These flowers are made of Lego!

Sunday we attended Caitlin's Spring concert. More on that later once I curate the photos.

Monday began with frost

 That was a shock: frost. The poor daffodils! When I put garbage out at 7:30, they were droopy!

I went back out for a walk after things warmed up. Look at them holding up their little heads!

They are so droopy! Poor little tulips.

The peony were falling over! Later in the day they perked up. Whew! 

Grecian Windflower

The Lenten Rose is tricky to photograph. I used the iPhone. If you could picture me bending over, trying to get them in focus! You can see my blue sleeve in the top left corner of the first photo below.

I tried again on Monday... We've rain on the way, I was happy to see the sun.

Grape hyacinth

We had deer visit. They are happy grazing.

There was a trio of bucks. 

We'll see what today brings!

The marathons

After my marathon garbage pick up, I have a better marathon upon which to report. 

 Jesse, in Vancouver, ran in the 39th annual 10 K Sun Run!  He was one of 35,000 runners! 

I remember going on runs with son Jesse, on weekends back in the day. I loved running. He would run rings around me. We'd jog around the neighbourhood; he'd go on ahead, circle back, and visit me. I think that was in Nepean. My knees preclude this now. That, and shin splints from softball; tendonitis, after biking too much. Those were the days! 

One can order photographs or a video from the marathon. I figured the video might be fun. He appears in the video at 16 - 18 second, 49 seconds. More or less. He's wearing a dark ball cap, dark windbreaker and pants. It gives you a notion of being there!

I sent him a cheery message, he trained as an actor (BFA), and work as a financial planner:

        "All the best for tomorrow! I'll bet 'break a leg' isn't appropriate now!  "

The video was a crap shoot. You can order them, but aren't really sure of the quality. They offer photos, but he wasn't really front and centre, and was a blur. He is below, stopping his wristwatch timer. All in black, with a black cap. His orange shirt peeking out. I am so proud of him! He turns 40 next month. 

 

Jesse Sun Run from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Back to home... 

In the forest, I spotted a brown creeper while I was harvesting trailcam cards. This is a screen shot, as I'm never able to capture it in photos, only video. Some marathons are best not taken up!

I moved to the trailcam, and heard a bird singing. I didn't have any idea about what it could be. I recorded it to use with BIRDnet, and it said 'Brown Creeper! ' What could have been more logical?!

We have daffies!

Tulips, nearly!

My so-called Lenten Rose! We are well past Lent. I took these photos with my new phone. Just an experiment.  

This one isn't too bad! It's a lot easier than getting on my belly in the wet, dirty garden!

I pointed out this tulip for JB. It's been here for years. I did not plant it. Each year it would show leaves. Finally, it appears to have a blossom coming along, a marathon? Now,  while the deer have taken off into the forest, you never know when Clover will come back. I'm going to have to put my garden fence up soon.

Yay, spring! Except it is snowing this morning. The plants will be fine, but the warm weather lulled us into a false sense of the season.

🐣The Phoebe nest seems done, but since the colder weather moved in – they have disappeared. Their marathon is not yet done. 

Our federal government employees are on strike. They've been negotiating for two years, another marathon. My pet peeve is the disparity between front line workers, and CEOs. The difference between the workers and CEOs used to be a factor of 100 fold. In recent times, this disparity has gone to 243 times the salary of workers. The average top CEO in Canada made $14 million in 2021.  This is just Calgary:

It's not limited to Canada, either.

From SVSU.edu