The older, the more broken. We all know that. Unless, of course, you take care of the stuff you have and you will be able to use it for the next one hundred years. There you have it, the recipe for longevity. But somehow, I’m not convinced that all that old stuff is really that old.
Today, I’ll present you a few pictures I found not so long ago and that might, just might, be worth looking at. We went out to a place called
By now I start to get the impression that long weekends in Manitoba invariably include rain and clouds. Nothing much you can do about, but an “interesting“ phenomenon. So, instead of staying home and showing sultry faces, we decided to go the the Pinawa Dam provincial Park instead.
As you can see on this picture, the day was pretty grey and did not promise to get better. But we got a bunch of surprises. I knew there were snakes around, but
Flooding has started in some places in the province. Although some do not believe the flooding is going to be a big problem. Whoever you will want to believe (experience counts more for me than papers…) the La Salle river is going over the banks.
It also goes over bridges and bird houses. Last week I decided to go to one of the parks slightly outside the city and was greeted with this sign. Usually you can still go somewhere once you have royally ignored it, but this time it was for real.
When I first took this picture, I didn’t have in mind that it would take me back to my childhood of about 250 years ago 
. It was just another shot. But the more I looked at it, the more I started to drift back to the days where Mr. Owl was a daily figure around 7pm on Dutch television. It was also the time when the parents declared that bedtime was after the “Fabeltjeskrant” or the Fables Newspaper.
This owl here, though has no intention whatsoever to close its eyes or even to close its beak. She was out in the open, with her handler from the Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre and very much enjoyed the attention as well as the open air. So what’s with this trip on Memory lane? Well…
It has been a while since I paid a visit to Oak Hammock Marsh. The last time I was there to take some photos of marsh animals was long before winter. Since then I have returned there, but everything was frozen. Not an animal in sight. So that visit doesn’t count.
The last weekend of April I finally got back to Oak Hammock Marsh to see the animals. Or at least to see if any of them had already returned after the long winter we have experienced. I was not to