Spotted this wee Brown Creeper on Brown Creek in Port Coquitlam while doing a planting/restoration project with the Stream of Dreams Murals Society and Echo Ecological.
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Air Travel Piling Up this Year, Guilty Feelings, Too
We’ve kept our air travel down for many years, as it’s one of the most carbon-intensive ways to move around our suffering planet.
But we’ve got several trips lined up this year, and while I’m excited, I’m also feeling guilty.
We haven’t visited Yumi’s parents in Japan for many years, so that’s on the agenda.
We have a friend in the UK who will be travelling later in the year and who says we’re welcome to use her apartment. Wow.
And there’s a bunch of us in-laws hitting our sixties this year, so there’s another travel-intensive gathering planned. . .
And we have not one, but two, family weddings this year in eastern Canada, which shall require travel from here on the west coast.
I have an aunt who often laments the days of family all living in one village, within steps of each other.
Yup.
Yeah, there are carbon offsets. And yeah, we are probably one of the most enviro-friendly families around.
But still . . . We’re gonna have a huge carbon smack this year. Sigh. . .
Scenic Views at Minnekhada Regional Park in Coquitlam, BC
Lovely day for a ramble at Minnekhada Regional Park, one of the many beautiful parks we have in the Metro Vancouver system!
A detail on the lodge
Mommy, what’s that? : – )
Sandhill Cranes at Minnekhada Regional Park in Coquitlam, BC
We spotted a couple of Sandhill Cranes at Minnekhada Regional Park today, and it appeared that spring was in the air : – ).
New Westminster BC Fraser River Walk at Low Tide
The Fraser was really low today, and we enjoyed a walk along the New Westminster waterfront.
Cool patterns in the mud
Yes, that is a bald eagle way up in the sky, but I don’t think it’s going to bother you, wee one. . .
Low tide reveals interesting debris
Cold, Windy Day at Mud Bay Park in Surrey, BC
We’d never been to Mud Bay Park in south Surrey, BC, so decided to check it out today. It was windy and cold, so we didn’t tarry, but we did see dunlins and eagles.
You can see the wind ruffling the feathers on this majestic eagle
They don’t call it Mud Bay for nuthin’ : – ). This is part of one the most important migratory bird areas in the world.
A rare sighting of the Red-Legged Yumi : – )
Moi embracing the cold. . .
Actually it was plus 5 C or so, but there was a cutting wind
Fraser Foreshore Feathered Friends
A walk long Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby revealed a few birds and a derelict sailboat.
Early Morning Moon over South Burnaby, BC
Moon over Rumble St. in SE Burnaby, BC, early this morning as I waited for a ride to a Stream of Dreams Murals Society project.
And here’s a tight crop. I’m impressed with my wee Canon SX730HS. Not bad for handheld shots before sunrise. . . Of course you don’t get the quality of a DSLR, but not bad, not bad. . .
Burnaby’s Deer Lake Looks Beautiful with Ice and Snow
These American Coots were fun to watch as they bobbed up and down, sometimes walking on ice, sometimes in the water
American Wigeon
Female and male Bufflehead
Male Bufflehead
Lesser Scaup
It’s fun to be walking along and say “that hummer tree is around the next bend.” and sure ’nuff . . . : -)
Contemplating New Career in IT Consulting
I ought to go into IT consulting.
Wife cannot log into her computer. Help!
I go to her room, and while she’s getting a cup of tea, I jiggle the mouse, pull a USB drive out of a USB port, pull a hair out of my nose, and voila, computer is awake and responding.
I would normally charge $200, but because I’m not sure how I fixed the problem, it must have involved some element of wizardry, so I think the bill ought to be $400.
Not to mention the sacrifice of a nose hair. . . 