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.
Finally we got some snow! It's late in the season and the temperatures will be above freezing soon but at least we got some snow to play with. On the other hand, when I went out to shovel I found that someone had beat me to it. Guess I was not the only one to want to play with a snow shovel.
Many years ago I took a series of slides of barns and silos for a farm unit I was teaching to grade one children. Friday, as I drove down some country roads on the way to Hamilton, I realized that some of those barns were long gone and others were well on their way. Several of the barns in our neighbourhood that were full of dairy and beef cows only two years ago are now empty and falling into disrepair. I am thinking that perhaps a new set of photos is in order before this architecture and way of life is totally gone.
This live piranha was thrown into a room of hungry humans and stripped to the bone in a few seconds
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well, maybe not. It is really part of the RBG's "AMAZON VOYAGE" show and the myths of piranhas eating people and cattle in seconds turns out to not be true either according to research.
