Day gazillion and counting

Tomorrow will be 10 weeks, 70 crazy days, and counting, since we've been under lockdown of varying degrees and working from home. I actually don't think we'll all be back at the office until next year unless there's a miracle vaccine before then.

May 8 and 9 we had snow and ice, as you can see below.

My poor bleeding heart! I lost about 1/3 of it, but it's now in full, glorious bloom.

Now we're having a heat wave and my air conditioning is on. From winter to summer overnight, almost.

I've been taking lots of walks down to the swamp, which is where most of the following snapshots were taken.

One of the paths to the water, below. The geese families like to hang out here, so I'm very careful when they're around, don't go close, since they have their babies to protect now.

In the distance, below, you can see two large apartment buildings under construction. It's a busy area, usually quite noisy with traffic and construction, though you'd never know it from the pics.

One family had 15 or 16 goslings! I thought it was 16, kept looking at a few pics of the same family, but it might be "only" 15.

 Wild strawberries blooming now, below.

 Everything is a few weeks late this year, including the lilacs.

 I don't know what these white flowers are, they were on someone's front garden.

 The cherry and apple trees are in bloom now, won't last long in this heat.

 My favourite part of the swamp, early this morning (below).

 

 

Another rabbit. Only this one from my early morning walk today, but last week I saw three on my walk in the same area.

I saw/heard my first catbird a few days ago!

My gosh, I thought it was a little critter in distress until I saw the bird! Very disturbing call, and I had to Google when I got home to see what kind of bird it was. It certainly put my "maternal" instincts on high alert, when I heard him. LOL.

This past Saturday I went down to the office, first time since March. I wanted to clean up my cubicle and bring a few personal items home. I took the opportunity to snap a few pics, as some of the cherry trees were in bloom, and grounds people have put in tulips as usual, below.

The magnolia trees outside our building (below) fared better than the others I've seen in my own neighbourhood, perhaps because they were protected from the snow and ice we had. All the other blossoms I've seen just...froze...on the branches early in May.

 

So, other than sitting on my butt all day at my kitchen/dining table, working, you can see what I've been doing. :-D

Well, taking pics of the flowers and of green landscape is my "thing," and all the more precious given that life has become even "smaller" than normal for many of us.

Derry seems to be doing okay, at least he's enjoying the garden. The earliest I could schedule a  dental for him, though, is July 23rd. I wish I hadn't waited, but I wasn't keen to try to get a taxi in the middle of winter. Ha. Good luck getting a taxi in a timely manner now; the two cab companies we have each has half their fleet off the road.

Anyway, we'll muddle along until then. I only hope he's not in any discomfort, that he just has tartar build-up, no pain. If he stops eating or starts pawing at his face, I'll call and see if I can get him in earlier. (They have to catch up on spays and neuters, hence the two-month wait.)

In the meantime, he's "hatching" the shasta daisy I planted this year. Good for him, bad for the poor daisy. LOL.

Those poor geraniums in the pots beside him froze in the ice and snow, so I cut them back and am waiting to see if they grow. I know geraniums are hardy, but they were/are looking quite pathetic.

The rest of the garden is doing well, though.

I hope the annuals I potted take and do well, but if not...oh, well! (I have 14 pots out back and 2 planters out front, the most I've ever had in my 20 years here.)

So our little life here continues on, as best it can. I hope everyone is doing as well as possible and staying safe! Take care, be sensible and take proper precautions if/when you venture out, as necessary for your area.

Peace.