Mud Lake in Winter

Mud Lake in Winter

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Fly Away Home

flyawayhome1We tried out the Roku streaming and watched a delightful film: Fly Away Home.  It is the story of a family that uses  ultralight aircraft to teach a group of geese to migrate from Canada to North Carolina and back.  This is in the hope that migratory paths for endangered species can be reopened using the ultralights.  What a delightful film.  A wet land in the North Carolina is threatened with development and the chance that some group of birds will adopt it on migration is its only hope of withstanding the bulldozer.  Of course, it all works out.  Based on real events the viewer gets to see a lot of beautiful scenery along the travel path from Ontario to North Carolina.

The filming sites are [according to IMDb]:

Port Perry, Ontario, Canada
Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Auckland, New Zealand [earlier part of the story]
Niagara Falls Air Force Base, New York, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Main Street, St. Helena, Napa Valley, California, USA
North Carolina, USA

Our local geese, while a small group does stay here in winter, will be back soon.  The ice will be leaving with this warmth and they will honk-honk their way.

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

In times like these, Mr. Rogers

mister-rogers-stamp-With Spring coming a some beautiful days taking us outside, we paused to watch PS cover the career of Mr. Rogers.  In these days where so many just seem pulled by the forces of disgust and evil,he stands near alone in his purity.  What a dude.  Be sure and put him on your snail mail after the 24th of the month.  USPS has a great stamp coming out of Mr. Rogers and the King.  It has its First Day on March 23, meaning your post office should have it on the 24th.

Beautiful Days in the Neighborhood



A beautiful day with light winds and temperatures in the forties.  The Sun is shining bright and the water is dripping, or falling in frozen chunks, from the roof.  A herd of 14 deer roamed by early, including some indicating the winter has been nice to them given their chubbiness.  The forecast is for some more of these days, bringing thoughts of green grass in the open areas by the weekend.