The Victoria Day weekend is coming up, traditionally the time you can expect it to be safe to get your garden planted – though I wouldn’t put out the tomatoes just yet. But the potatoes are now happily buried in the new part of my growing vegetable garden. This area of so-called lawn (“so-called” because [...]
I love how the soft sea ice forms, bends and cracks over rocks as the tide recedes. It was -8° C this morning along the shore of the Bay, and the tide was falling.
I’m fascinated by the formation of ice and how it interplays with the tides. And it has started again with cold morning temperatures which leave a layer of ice which plays with rocks as the tide goes down. You can hear the cracking as you walk along the shore – just little crick-clicks now, but [...]