my old blog, a place where i will find things again

Last October we cleared a small stretch of forest, it's wood  still a bit green, but keeping us warm when the temperature dips below minus 20.
In July I took photos what is coming up in the opened up space, the ground only  disturbed by heavy equipment, but not dug up or dug over.
This winter I have clipping up the new poplars, I don't want there to be a forest again in a few years, i would like it to stay open, it improves our view of the mountains.
The poplars are the first to grow back and vigorously so. The spruce take much longer. But when we came here 22 years or so ago, the spruce in front of the house had doubled in size. I always say the first 7 years they did not grow one bit, but the last 10 years they grew a few meters.

Now I am hoping by clipping the poplars every year, and eventually the spruce too, I hope that somehow it will stay a nice wild rose meadow.

here you see all the Poplar in the foreground, Fireweed one blooming the first year, Northern Bedstraw blooming. tiny rose plants, strawberry plants, grass and some yarrow leaves....

more of the same, and i see some small plants that could be Beardtongue and or Bluebells

Here you see lots of Bedstraw blooming, and in the right hand bottom corner is that a yellow Oxytrope blooming?

looking west into the forest how it was. West always had lots of fireweed, south there was grass and east thicker forest and the hole.And the forest floor in that cleared patched had soapberries and roses.

In the bottom middle I see Eskimo Potato in seed.

secret

images flying by

camp robbers first
then the magpies came
out of the corner of my eye
i saw a great shadow
the raven returned

Spring log 1997

In the spring of 2017 I entered my spring logs, that I kept over the years some years, here. I found another one yesterday.

Spring 1997
feb 2 squirrel active
feb 9 bike riding
feb 22 +5 C
feb 23 rain
february  starting to play  ball and soccer
march 19 mudplay
april 5 it warmed up
april 6 dinner outside

april 7 mud play in our underwear
april 9 +12 C

april 11 transplanted a fuzzy head crocus and saxifrage ( it seems they lived for 10 years and then disappeared)

april 16 transplanted raspberries ( they took off big tie , they dominate the garden in 2020)

april 20 a robin

april 23 transplanted pine trees ( one is a big tree in 2020)

april 24 and 27 did more transplanting, dubious results looking back from 2020)

april 28 still frost every single night

april 28 radishes coming up, seeded under glass.
may 2 robin singing a lot
may 3 blue bird
april 24 snow gone
april 24 grouse drumming
may 2 crocus blooming by the rock
may 15 lots of crocuses blooming on the property
may 15 leaves coming on to the trees
may 21 grey jays have young ones

may 23 ate the first radish
may 24 gooseberrybush blooming

may 25 seeded and planted the garden

may 26 night frost

juvenile eagle

This is an update for previous post.
Wednesday we saw a juvenile bald eagle at the Takhini river at Kusawa Lake. one that is probably a year old.
It very well could be last years eagle. because there is only one adult pair nesting along that stretch of river. And they are indeed having eaglets again. On a much better nest, quite a sturdy platform. I am so proud of them. And so happy to see a juvenile eagle around.
They did arrive much later this year, but as we saw wednesday June 27 2018 all is well!