Each week I spend a half day working at Plan B Organic Farm in the Hamilton region. There are many seedlings up in the greenhouses but the garlic is up in the fields already.
We enjoy fresh organic food all year round grown both locally and from other places on the day that it ships in.
Over 7000 runners headed out from the start line. Fleur-Ange (Eglantine) was on a pedestrian overpass about 500 metres from the start line when she took this photo. I was somewhere near the back of the crowd you can see. Four minutes of runners had already gone past.
I did a 10 kilometre run for a 3 person relay. Most of the runners you can see here were doing the whole 30 kilometre run.
An early view of an Early Saxifrage (Saxifraga virginiensis) just up. Bloom time may be a week or away depending upon the weather.
Temperatures were up to + 18 C (64 F) on Friday but down to below freezing Sunday. I suspect this Garter Snake is well underground again. We had a skim of snow on the ground this morning and no snakes in sight.
Unseasonably warm here yesterday.
Anyone know what kind of spider this is?
Saw the first Mourning Cloak butterflies here yesterday and the Silver Maple, Aspen, and Willows are all blooming. The American Woodcocks are calling morning and evening and Robins, Killdeers, Grackles, and Red-wing Blackbirds are all here and in full song.
Too bad I cannot add the sound to this as the coyotes were serenading a train as I went out this morning. I liked the look of the crescent moon coming through the twigs in the trees.
I found this Western Conifer Seed Bug (Leptoglossus occidetalis) in our living room yesterday. I wonder where it spent the winter?
A couple of days ago Gangi [http://www.flickr.com/photos/gangie/4409284914/ ]
put up a photo of milkweed seeds so I went out to see if there were any left on our property. Yes, there were!
Spring is coming but winter is not over . . . These two photos were taken about 300 metres apart in the RBG's Hendrie Valley. Still ice on the ponds but there are flower up and blooming in sunny, protected spots.
Other people told me that the willow buds were opening. This is the one by our east pond. It is not swelling as far as I can see but maybe this weekend when the temperatures are supposed to get above 10℃.
These two deer were on the edge of our west field when I walked the dog yesterday. The chose to stand still and listen and look instead of running. I took the dog back to her pen and then returned with the camera to get this photo.
