Venice Floods

Anyone that knows us, knows that Venice is our favourite city. We were there only a few weeks before the floods this year, This photo is taken of the area directly in front of the walled garden of our hotel.

More images of the flooding
https://mymodernmet.com/natalia-elena-massi-venice-flood/

Morning Mist

"I walk, all day, across the heaven-verging field"

Mary Oliver from Upstream

Winter Walk Dec 11th.

  "No matter what your scientific background, emotionally you're an alchemist. You live in a world of liquids, solids, gases and the heat-transfer effects that accompany their changes of state. These are the things you perceive, the things you feel. What ever you know about their true natures is grafted on top of that." 

from Isle of the Dead

by Roger Zelazny

Summer Phoebe

 "What will the creature made all of seadrift; do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

Ursula K. LeGuin
The Lathe of Heaven

Jay in the Garden (Hi Nessa thanks for stopping by)

""Oh look!" 

There, on the black bough of a snow flecked maple, 

Fearless and gay as our love, 

A bluejay cocked his crest! 

Oh who can tell the range of joy 

Or set the bounds of beauty? "

from A Winter Blue Jay

by Sara Teasdale

" I would clothe you in feathers

You are too bare in your long bones when the wind

sighs in the snow

You are the movement of birds"

from Words from the Aviary

(for Monique)

by D.G. Jones

It is snowing today. but I am cheating these photos were taken during a snow fall in early Oct. I suspect my favourite winter birds are the Dark-Eyed Juncos, who appear with the snow and disappear when it does. This year we had lots. They really seemed to be interested in the small seeds that fell from the volunteer weeds in  the patio, which we left in place. The Juncos interest me  because of their subtle colours and also the variation between birds. According to the Canadian Wildlife Federation our weeds, twiggy yard and lack of a fall cleanup was just what Junco's like. We also had a lot of fall warblers so this is a strategy we plan to stick to. 

http://cwf-fcf.org/en/resources/encyclopedias/fauna/birds/dark-eyed-junco.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx6n5mtWI5gIVRCCtBh16bQHXEAAYASAAEgJxPPD_BwE

Haunted Florence

“Every moment of the night

Forever changing places

And they put out the star-light 

With the breath from their pale faces” 

― Edgar Allen Poe