Seen on a walk

I like this tree

On my walk yesterday, this tree was blooming? budding? growing?

And it just looked so cheerful and hopeful that I had to take a photo.

I know that this is a completely ordinary tree doing it’s completely ordinary thing but I was grateful for it yesterday and that’s worth celebrating.

A close-up photo of a branch of a tree with a bud that looks kind of like a raspberry and a bunch of green tufts where the needles or leaves will be. ?
A close-up photo of a branch of a tree with a bud that looks kind of like a raspberry and a bunch of green tufts where the needles or leaves will be.

Was this bird spying on me? (I kid!) (mostly)

Yesterday, I saw this tiny bird (zoom in on the top of the tree) while I was out for a walk.

A photo of the top part of a couple of evergreen trees. In the upper most branches of one is a small, gray or white bird.
Image description: a photo of the upper branches of two evergreen trees with blue sky behind them. in the spindly upper branch at the top of the photo is a small grey or white bird.

Nothing about its shape or size or actions caused me any concern but when it said. “Tweet, tweet!” , like a person doing a very poor imitation of a bird, my suspicions were raised.

Nice try, spy-bird. Nice try.

PS – Before you send someone to do a wellness check: Yes. the bird sounded like a person saying tweet. No, I don’t actually think it was a spy.

Ups and Downs

Yesterday was a pretty good day but I didn’t sleep well last night and today is really hard.

My walk with Khalee helped a bit.

A photo of a shallow river in early spring.
A sunny day photo of a shallow river with lots of exposed stones, surrounded by winter-worn grass and bare trees.

I assume things will keep going like this for a long time and I just have to remember that there will be more peaceful days ahead.