Sphinx, robin, katydid, and the smoke

The garden contains lots of critters.

Tis the season of the nocturnal sphinx! Xylophanes tersa Tersa Sphinx A great, long proboscis!

My lovely balloon flowers!

Katydid

And the monarch caterpillars are doing well.

In the night, Olive the doe set off the camera. You can see Butch running in the background!  Doe in the night 

I shall miss the robins. They took off Monday morning, This is the last video of them in the nest. July 17/18th. Robins  

July 19, I was working in the yard and I could hear a juvenile robin begging for food. If you watch to the end, you'll see its parent shove food in its mouth. It was a serviceberry, and it spit it out. No veggies and fruit for the teenager! baby robin  

We had a hazy day. There are wildfires in northern Ontario, as well as nearly 300 fires British Columbia. 

The smoke is drifting a long, long way. It's over 4000 km and six of the provinces have smoke.

I am hoping for rain to clear us out. 

This is predicted for this morning.
We shall see!

Underneath all this smoke are 5 Great Lakes. pic.twitter.com/eDm7ufZLY9

— Anthony Farnell (@AnthonyFarnell) July 19, 2021

Ontario Fire info maps

  

Fire Smoke Canada

This website shows the current smoke across the continent.  It's an amazing interactive map.

Digging out after the storm

Everyone made it through the snow and wind!

Olive,
 the other reindeer looks like a sheep!

Frosty O'Rourke all dressed up

 But look, something in the driveway...

Doesn't it look pretty? 

We KNEW we'd get more snow in February!

500 m of highway and they chuck it on our drive.

How far away are we from Wendy's in Perth? About 1 1/2 hamburgers and 1/2 a box of fries. The rest they chucked out of the truck. My regular readers know that I spend hours picking up garbage from the ditches, two or three times a season after the snow flies.

Two supersized orders with fries,
 and they didn't finish, either.

Wendy's Perth at 10:57 p.m.

Usually around Earth Day in April, we'd do a school project.

Look at the Wendy's containers we found. 

As a teacher, we would collect schoolyard garbage,

sort it and graph it.

Do you know how many containers I have picked up?
At least a recycling bin, or two, and a bag of garbage, each time I go out. Criminal.