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Energetic, articulate and intelligent. A man of vision. Not nearly as curmudgeonly as I pretend to be. (I declined to write a description of myself, so this was a collaborative effort developed by my daughter and my life parter.)

Friday, May 14, 2010

More than a year

They say that when you are having fun, time flies. Well if that is true then I have been having a ball.
It seems that it is more than a year since I last posted. But then, I haven't received many blogs from those whose blogs I used to read. I think only one or two for the year.

Perhaps I should say something as the weather starts to (finally) edge toward Summer. On my walk with the dog today I saw three interesting things. (Interesting to me but perhaps not to the world at large. No. 1 was a mileage marker from the old railway. It is a concrete post wider at the bottom narrowing toward the top. It is about a meter tall, square, 3/4 buried in the grass at the edge of the Confederation Trail. It is covered with moss and try as I would I could not see the markings on it because it is too deeply buryied.

Next I saw a tree bordering the field next to the trail which appears to be a person (man) sitting with another person on his knee. Thatr made me think of the man times my children sat on my knee.

Next was a fallen tree, off the trail. It was like a huge bird or dinosaur which was eating something it had captured. A knot in the trunk of the tree looks like an eye and the broken end of the tree looks like the beak of a bird or a dinosaur.

I promise that tomorrow or monday I will photograph these wonders of nature and forward them to you.