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Spring Greens – 92/365

Posted by Ellie

I took another trip around and about on Saturday, with Joni at my heels, this time into the woods themselves. There was plenty of grey lichen on the bark as the woods are fairly dark, but then I came across this bright green patch of delicate frondy bits. I have no idea what they are, but they were the greenest, most spring-like things we came across.

#365project +G+ 365 Project by +Simon Davis-Oakley +Patricia dos Santos Paton

#naturephotos by +Robert SKREINER  +NATURE & MACRO Photos 

#allthingsgreen +All Things Green by +Cicely Robin Laing

HQSP Natural Other  curated by  +Anja Wessels +Jean-Noel Nicolas +Valesa Diamontes +Daniel Taylor #hqspnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other


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There's Nothing Quite Like a Good Stick to Chew – 91/365

Posted by Ellie

Yesterday Joni and I went for a walk in search of signs of spring for me to photograph. There were bare patches where the snow has melted and we managed to walk around quite a bit of the garden on the grass alone. There has been a lot of storm damage from the winter, most noticeably branches that have fallen down and lots of twigs and debris scattered all over the brown grass that's only just seen the light of day since the fall.  Joni (who has taken her role of photographic assistant seriously) looked for good props for an early spring photograph. This was her favourite and she obligingly modelled it for you all. She put on what she thought was her most attractive stick chewing pose for you all. There were no (other) signs of spring … not yet.

Enjoy any spring weather you might be having, wherever you are. Yesterday as you see it wasn't too bad. Today we have pouring rain. Have a great weekend everyone, no matter where you are.

#365project +G+ 365 Project by +Simon Davis-Oakley +Patricia dos Santos Paton

#dogloversworldwide +DOG LOVERS Worldwide by +Robert SKREINER  +Roswitha Böhmer +Tom Crews 

#hqspanimals  +HQSP Animals curated by +Alejandro J. Soto +Krystina Isabella Brion +Andy Smith

#noapologies #bordercollie #puppy #JonisDiary  #AdayinthelifeofJoni #fansofJoni 


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Feist was Fabulous in Her Solo Concert – 90/365

Posted by Ellie

Last Monday night we attended the opening concert of Feist's 2014 tour. She played solo, but honestly, she was so excellent that she practically was the band. Her performance started off with quiet acoustic, then simply went from strength to strength. I didn't want it to end and obviously no one in the sold out audience wanted it to either as she had two or three encores. Believe it or not, each was better than the last. My one regret was that she did not sing one of my favourites of hers, which is a song by another of my favourite singer songwriters, Ron Sexsmith. You can see it here: Feist – Secret Heart (Paris)
Thinking of my friend and another musician, +Lynn David Newton who might not have met one of our favourite Canadian singer songwriters.
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I didn't take this photograph on the night of the concert, but instead took it on Thursday night, using my special app that turns it into a submission for #SketchguruSaturday – the fun curators +paula contreras  +Christina Lihani and +Amanda Wyckoff 
#welovemusic   #Feist   #Lesliefeist  

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Spring Muskrat – 89/365

Posted by Ellie

Again at the wetlands, the one creature who seemed quite content was this, which I presume to be a muskrat. You can just see one beady eye. We saw him as we were walking along the path and heard a noise in the water. It's amazing how well camouflaged he was, even against the blue water. If I hadn't been wearing my contact lenses I would not have been able to see him to focus the camera on him. So my perseverance in getting used to them has paid off already. You can see that the ice is still in the middle of the water and it's only at the edges where there is open water. It had frozen very hard this winter and looked like a big open snow covered field. It's lovely to see it begin to look like a wetland habitat again.

I'm not far off being caught up in my project, but will stop for today with apologies for flooding everyone with posting for the past couple of days. Hopefully I will have time to reply to all of the lovely comments that have been made.

#365project +G+ 365 Project by +Simon Davis-Oakley +Patricia dos Santos Paton

HQSP Natural Other  curated by  +Anja Wessels +Jean-Noel Nicolas +Valesa Diamontes +Daniel Taylor #hqspnaturalother +HQSP Natural Other


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