An album from our snowy Byrne Creek walk in SE #Burnaby, BC, today. Feeling blessed to have this forest out our back gate right in the city!
This Varied Thrush was the only bird we saw today aside from a couple of sparrows. We did hear a Kingfisher in the spawning habitat, but couldn’t spot it.
The fish ladder at Griffiths Pond
The fantastical walnuts at the old farmstead
When a snow-laden cedar branch fights back 🙂
Showing off my studded tires. I got these slip-on studded rubber webs that go over hiking boots or shoes, and provide great traction on snow and ice.
Song Sparrow, White-Crowned Sparrow, Spotted Towhee, and Junco puffed up in the chill at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby today. And a Bufflehead in lower Byrne Creek.
Sat down after lunch to read for half an hour and got lost for three hours in Ursula K. Le Guin’s non-fiction collection Words are My Matter: Writings about Life and Books.
A collection you want to read slowly, and savor. . .
One of her best-known quotations, so pertinent to the times we live in:
“I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries – the realists of a larger reality.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
We spotted this iridescent Anna’s Hummingbird in the wee Japanese garden at Garry Point Park in Steveson, BC, today. Then as we walked the dyke to the north, a couple of Northern Harriers put on a show.
I decided to take my daily walk after breakfast in case the rain returns later today. Anna’s Hummingbird, Steller’s Jay, Chickadee, all near Taylor Park in SE Burnaby.
