Fledgling robin

Pooping on my driveway. Parents are watching it from the trees.

Fully vaccinated

 2nd dose AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine plus one hour. Feel fine. The saddest thing was I overheard the pharmacists talking - they had 50 shots but would be only giving out 31 that day because people cancelled when they heard it was AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca is only being given for second doses now in Canada. I saw two people walk up to the counter and cancel when they heard it was AstraZeneca. There haven't been any significant side effect issues with second doses of AstraZeneca with people who had no problem with the first shot.

Pink Rhododendrons

 

Purdon 2021

Showy Ladyslippers ( Cypripedium reginae )

Stores reopen in Ontario, line ups

Stores selling non-essentials reopened on Friday, but only at 15% capacity.

Solar Eclipse June 10, 2021

Just before 6.00 am 

 I know the street where the attack that killed four of a Muslim family in London last Sunday happened - driven it often for work and to visit friends who live about 5 minutes away from the crime scene - even knew the mosque, which is the oldest in Ontario. So I lived down the street from the scene of the Quebec City attack, and across the street from the Polytechnique Montréal shootings. 

Haskap, Peonies, Rhododendron

White peonies

Haskap, one of many names like blue honeysuckle, sweetberry honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle, blue fly honeysuckle, blue-berried honeysuckle, haskap, or the honeyberry, my dessert. 

 Rhododendron

First purple passionflower of year