2013-08-07

cincinnatus_c: loon (Default)
2013-08-07 01:40 am

Yellowing into harvest

Currently at Toronto Pearson: 20. High today: 24. The dewpoint has edged up to 17. But the Accuweather long-range doesn't offer much indication of a return of deep summer.

Today I heard the starlings massed somewhere nearby for the first time this summer. On exactly August 1 I came across the first aster of the year, a little ways up the drive at the cottage:

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One of these days I'll get my baby loon pictures up here, but for now, back to the back yard.

Bugs really love coriander, for some reason.

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A couple of weeks ago I got one of those upside-down finch feeders. )