Travel Blog

Spring starts on Sept. 1 here. I guess they don't wait for equinox on the 21st. Yesterday, RNZ played all kinds of 'spring' music from Vivaldi to Vaughn Williams to whatever. It was really quite nice.

Speaking of spring, Victoria, BC had worse weather than us today. It must be rather hard to go from 30C to 15C with showers virtually overnight. We, on the other hand, are heading out of winter and seeing lots of sun. Yes!

Triplet

The herons are coming in for the night. The White-faced herons, which are smaller than our Great Blues, love to come into the field in the evening.

TODAY'S TIDBIT

Twist ties are a very rare commodity down here. They don't skimp on the plastic bags, but there are no twist ties anywhere in the produce section.