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
Winter has been long to vacate the premises this year. By now, I’m still not completely sure we won’t get another snowstorm, one of these days. But then again, that’s me. Humans have long ago lost the ability to predict the weather just by looking at the sky and smelling the air. That’s why we need meteorologists who “think” they know the weather better than the average human.
They probably do, but I’d like to look at the animals around me. If the Canada Geese don’t show up by the time we think that spring is due, then spring is not coming yet. Clear as a bell. However, this year, even the Canada Geese have had their share of lingering winter to endure.
Last time I showed you what can happen when industries leave. As well as what can happen to the land and the places they once occupied. But not all industries move away and not all of them just leave, happily. We can rile against industries as much as we want, we still need them. Even more if those industries produce beer.
While we usually only see the finished product, for a short while, I must say, we should also see how that nice liquid is produced. The Fort Garry Brewery in Winnipeg is a brewery founded in the 1930s. Interestingly enough, from a brewery with this kind of output you would expect that