Colorful Bird

Not a great photo, but a colorful bird at Innovation Place. Maybe a Baltimore Oriole?

Eye Candy

It's easy to get seduced by the flowers in the spring. (I know, it's almost June, but this is Saskatchewan.)



Innovation Place has lots of flowering trees to enjoy.



And the bees enjoy them too. I like the big fat bumble bees, although I wish they were more cooperative subjects!





The apple trees have plain white flowers, but the buds have a nice pink tinge.



Some of the flowering plants are also starting.



Not quite as colorful, but just as appreciated are the emerging leaves on the trees.

Spring Spiders

The weather is finally warming up, the leaves are coming out on the trees, and I'm happy to see the fishing spiders are back in force on the Innovation Place pond. They can be hard to spot at first. I crouch down beside the water and search. Nothing, nothing, nothing, ... oh wait, there's one. And next thing you know you've spotted half a dozen within a span of a few feet.





As I was sitting eating my lunch by the pond, something jumped onto me, which was apt because it turned out to be a jumping spider. I'm not sure what it was up to. It kept jumping from one part of me to another, to the chair, and back. It was only about 1/4" long and I only had my little camera so this is the best photo I managed. (on the strap of my sandal) It was a cute little guy.

Spring flowers

It's a good time of year to walk to work.





Even the Canada Geese come to visit Innovation Place in the spring.

A few photos

I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately, but here are a few.

It's always nice to see the leaves emerge on the trees and bushes.



A lot of the trees are still quite bare though.



Mourning Cloak and Cabbage White butterflies are also good signs of spring. Mourning Cloaks overwinter as adults, and this one is looking a bit ragged. It's amazing that they can survive our winters. Do they freeze solid or do they have enough "antifreeze" in them?