Today in the continued absence of anything crafty - though I did remember a shirt I have to mend before ignoring that cue - I am sharing a discovery from earlier this week:
Ravine path! It's my new favourite way to come down from the high bit to the low, before dragging myself back up to a second high bit. I mean, who needs a gym membership when you can get in your cardio among the trees?
Here's the view from just over the fence:
Most paths in this part of the ravine don't have any kind of protection, so when I saw this guy, I figured there was a reason for it. Falling down here would be an Owie. Much better to follow the trail.
This route should be passable well into the early winter when all the leaves are gone, but right now everything is ultra green and bursting! Check out this unrelated flowering plant I also pass while walking:
I am very lucky to live in a place that is more than just concrete and billboards. Even if that includes coyotes. I haven't seen any lately but in a chat with neighbours the other night coyotes were mentioned, and also our local hawk. Who, unbeknownst to me, took a liking to a family down the street and regularly left half-eaten offerings on their back deck. Glad I'm more aligned with the crow.
Speaking of whom, it's been hanging out down the street from us and poopin' on the sidewalk below. Maybe that's where it's roosting when I hear its random call in the morning? Nobody else seems to be as enamoured as I am, which may be related to said poopin'. And also the random squawky call, which does start quite early.
In the absence of the crow I've been enjoying the antics of this year's litter of squirrels in our front and back gardens. There's a little family of five tearing around, some grey and some black. You can tell they're babies because even though they're full-sized, they are playing instead of gathering food, and they stick to their group instead of dividing off into twos like last year's grey squirrel and black squirrel, ahem.
It's so nice to see these guys having fun before they hunker down to the business of being grownups.
You know what else is nice, and doesn't make me *at all* jealous even though I have the same plants at home and they still haven't filled in this much? The bed of wild geraniums next to the aforementioned flowering bush.
Isn't that gorgeous?
I'm going to leave you with a pic of today's breakfast graze tray. The radishes aren't very matchy but, delicious!
Thanks again for spending a little time with me. Hope you have a wonderful day and a great week to come!
