Author: Barbara Burkard

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Butterflies and other flying creatures

I’ve enjoyed taking pictures of birds, butterflies, dragon and damsel flies lately. Then I go on line to try to identify them. I’ve opened accounts on ebird.org and butterfliesandmoths.org/ to track and verify my finds. (Gardenswithwings.com is the first site I visit for identifying butterflies, they don’t offer the tracking.) I also opened an account on bumblebeewatch.org but so far have only got 2 photos of bumblebees. I haven’t started identifying the dragon and damsel flies yet.
Here are some of the creatures I’ve seen in recent days.

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Grand Flooding

We’ve had a wet spring and summer started the same. This morning the Grand River is higher than I’ve seen it before (as always, click on the little “i” on the bottom left corner for the caption):

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Protected: Gingerich Family Update

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A Sunday evening drive

Sometimes, when I’m feeling kinda down, I take a drive. The evening of Father’s Day I did just that. I brought my camera, looking for beauty, for God in creation (having experienced that topic in an “indoor outdoor worship service” that morning at Bloomingdale Mennonite Church).

The weather for the last several days had been unsettled, rain and sun, sometimes at the same time. I got some dramatic sky pictures. When I got to the park in Stratford it was raining lightly. Billie and I waited in the car until most of the drops had quit, then started our walk by the river. A rainbow was evident. I also took iconic Stratford pictures, the river, the theatre, the swans.

On my way home another rainbow appeared in the sky. It accompanied me from New Hamburg to Kitchener.

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Back yard bird feeder

I want to use up the bird seed I’d bought for Mom’s birdfeeder. It’s been fun watching the critters that come: