Trip to the mountains pika and it's food pile

"Who sees, the ultimate Recipient
of what happens, the One Who is aware
when, in the administrative wing
a clerk returns from noon-day, through
the ointment of mortality
for one strange hour, in all his lustreless life,
has touched his face."

from The Apex Animal
by Margaret Avison

https://defendabparks.ca

I mentioned we went to the park with the dogs last week.

Shaun, Nina, and Whateley not only saw the ducks but

they made a new friend.

"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, 

it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, 

and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. "

George Eliot

"The sun argues 

ice to liquid"

from Icicles

by Mark Irwin

We took the dogs to the park today, the city has not yet filled 

 the pond. They wait till late spring to discourage the Canadian 

Geese from nesting. However this pair of Mallards were making 

do with the spring melt water in a low spot. Although they are 

probably our most common duck I love the iridescent heads on 

the males and all the colours you see when they preen.

"I am living deeply now

like the white spider I spy

among the wild roses." 

from These Heady Flowers 

by Elizabeth Kirschner