Reading
What a lovely fall we are having here in Ontario! Chilly in the morning & evenings - great for sleeping & snuggling; hot & sunny T shirt weather during the day - yay! Great weather for painting & reading.. two of my favourite pastimes.
Currently I’m reading: Woman Watching. A terrific book about a very impressive woman - living in the Canadian wilderness, in a cabin in the the woods - watching & documenting (no easy task) birds. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence has a fascinating journey from Russia to Canada - looking after Canadas Quints (remember them?) & leaving her position because she was disgusted at how the quints were being ‘marketed’ & kept from their own parents.
Louise was no stranger to hard times or hard work & made a sizeable impact on our knowledge of birds in Canada. I watch the birds with a new respect, appreciating each grosbeak & bluejay, chickadee & nuthatch with new curiosity. Her thoughts of life itself & her reasoning on choices she made were also insightful.
I read it at the perfect time - with birds migrating, the feeder has been very active and there are days I can’t even count the different birds as they are non stop. Learning about catching & banding birds and ‘how that works’, this woman had incredible patience & perseverance. I won’t be catching or banding (you need a permit), I’ll just be enjoying ‘birdy antics’ -inside & out.
Today a painting of backyard birds is on the agenda. If you love birds and adventure, check out this woman journey.
It’s a fabulous day for ball kicking, bird watching & painting.
What a lovely fall we are having here in Ontario! Chilly in the morning & evenings - great for sleeping & snuggling; hot & sunny T shirt weather during the day - yay! Great weather for painting & reading.. two of my favourite pastimes.
Currently I’m reading: Woman Watching. A terrific book about a very impressive woman - living in the Canadian wilderness, in a cabin in the the woods - watching & documenting (no easy task) birds. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence has a fascinating journey from Russia to Canada - looking after Canadas Quints (remember them?) & leaving her position because she was disgusted at how the quints were being ‘marketed’ & kept from their own parents.
Louise was no stranger to hard times or hard work & made a sizeable impact on our knowledge of birds in Canada. I watch the birds with a new respect, appreciating each grosbeak & bluejay, chickadee & nuthatch with new curiosity. Her thoughts of life itself & her reasoning on choices she made were also insightful.
I read it at the perfect time - with birds migrating, the feeder has been very active and there are days I can’t even count the different birds as they are non stop. Learning about catching & banding birds and ‘how that works’, this woman had incredible patience & perseverance. I won’t be catching or banding (you need a permit), I’ll just be enjoying ‘birdy antics’ -inside & out.
Today a painting of backyard birds is on the agenda. If you love birds and adventure, check out this woman journey.
It’s a fabulous day for ball kicking, bird watching & painting.
