You give and take away

At 6:38 this morning our seventh grandchild, Vivian, was born. At 10:00 a.m. a dear friend, Martin, died of Alzheimer’s. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord.

Here is Vivian:

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Geese galore

A few years back I was visiting my old home town of Cardiff. During a  stroll to Roath Park Lake, I was rewarded by the sight of a couple of Canada geese bobbing cheerfully in the water. They were imported from Canada, a local informed me. Obviously no one had bothered to tell the keepers of the lake that Canada geese reproduce – quickly.

Here they are in Oakville:

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Spring

Has arrived in Oakville.

The Goldfinches are yellow:

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAAnd, although the tulips had not bloomed in Ottawa due, we were told, to the extremely cold winter (the insidious result of global warming, of course), they are now blooming here:

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