BLUE JAY.

Outside my window. Since my last posting I've been on one heck of a trip: Up to death'

door,literally, but clawed back from the brink by the miracle of modern medical tecnology. I have also changed my address. I am presently living in a Personal Home Care facility: Meadow Creek Retirement Centre, Paradise, NL, and contrary to everything I imagined, I love it here,and am feeling better and happier than I have been in a long time. My children placed a bird feeder near my window and it soon attracted those beautiful birds,. The only problem is that the crows get there first and clean up most of the food, I'd like to wring their necks, they are such an awful pest . In this case I'm not sure that intelligence is such a virtue. They are very greedy.

GOING TO ROOST.

GOLDEN RAGWORT.

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Going to seed

HEMP NETTLE.

NATURE'S SENSE OF HUMOUR

GOLDEN RAGWORT.

SMALL GAME.

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This is about the only game there is to hunt in this neck of the woods.

CHAMOMILE.

. These little daisies look like the common Ox-eye Daisy, except they are much smaller and the leaves of the plant are very different.

All the summer blosssoms are starting to look raggedy and many are already gone.

Found these. as usual, near my back door.

THE ONE THAT NEVER GOT AWAY.

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Flies may be amongst the lowest forms of life, but ,as humans, we may have already exceeded that distinction by our greed, our selfishness, and our lust to use to extintion all the finite resources of the planet. Man may have a brain, but he sure as hell , unlike the fly, does not have a lot of common sense. We appear to be blind to what is happening all around us. The flies may survive, (at this point, we don't harvest them) where we, most likely, will all perish

SMART GUY.

.Flies may not have much brain, but they sure are clever when it comes to eluding a predator. Try catching one! It took me two days to corner this fellow.

THE VIOLET.

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A couple of macro shots.

LABRADOR TEA.
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(Note earlier posts on plant.)
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This is a delicious drink, easy to prepare, abundant and free because it grows in the wild. I wonder why no one has hit upon the idea of marketing it.

AFRICAN VIOLET.

Mostly setimental reasons. This little plant is coming into its first bloom. It is a clipping from from my mom's African Violet that has been well cared for in her memory. My mom has been deceased for 38 years, so the mother plant has got to be at least 40 years old. She was a great lover of plants and would be glad to know that her Violet is still thriving and sharing its beauty.

WHITE LILAC.

I wish there was some way to transmit the smell. But that technology is not so far away. Science has already uraveled the mystery of sight and sound. Mathematics, is the basis of the universe.

CLOVER.

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This is a hand-held shot, so the sharpness could have been better. The lens is a converted 50 mm, f/1.8 Olympus. Can't blame the lens, since this Olympus beauty was one of the very best in the 35 mm. era

SHEPHERD'S PURSE.

. Those little flowers are so tiny, that one would need to get down on one's hands and knees and crawl through the grass and rubble in order to find them, and they are not all that plentiful. I have found only one plant so far in my "spot". The blossoms are only c. 1/16 " in diameter.

. The name is derived from the shape of the seed capusles that look like ancient shepherd's purses.

TYME- LEAVED SPEEDWELL.

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These are macro shots of a very , very tiny and very beautiful little flower.

THYME-LEAVED SPEEDWELL

EXQUISITE ENGINEERING.

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Who is so bold as to say there is no Master Hand behind this grand design!!