Feeling a tad uninspired of late. The weather has made me feel a little dreamy and a touch lazy. Content to sit outside with a coffee and a notebook, I write a few words, then simply wander off in my mind about nothing and everything. The sky has been cloudless, the trees getting thicker with leaves, the blossom petals swirling around, the damn midges getting into your mouth, your eyes, going into attack mode in your face. I tear a page out of my magazine and fold it into a paper fan and
genteelly swat at them. People turn and stare, knowingly, and smile. Or snicker, I'm not sure which.
In other news... we have four new baby peregrine falcons up in the Sheraton Hotel nest in Hamilton. Their scrape was cleaned out (after the mess they made last year!) for their arrival and they have acquired a lovely Weed
strategically placed in the
nearest corner for the chicks to sit under. Looks very homey. Here you can see Madame X looking around for mate Surge and screaming at him to get home with dinner because "I'm getting tired of sitting on these four kids who are squirming with hunger and the midges up here are just not enough food".
nearest corner for the chicks to sit under. Looks very homey. Here you can see Madame X looking around for mate Surge and screaming at him to get home with dinner because "I'm getting tired of sitting on these four kids who are squirming with hunger and the midges up here are just not enough food".
I need to move back to southern Ontario where the air is mellow. I don't think we've had a lazy, hazy day like that here yet.
ReplyDeleteHope we'll get to see the falcons sometime! Today it's too windy here to sit even outside.
ReplyDeleteSome days we need those lazy, doing nothing but stare, days - good for you!
Still no falcons at the Kodak tower, and yeah, I've been kinda blah too.
ReplyDeleteOh I know that feeling..... whether you are a falcon or a woman, seems you are always waiting for a male to rescue you!
ReplyDeleteGreat post.
XUP: it was a lazy 28C today, perfect for just sittin' out and feelin' hot.
ReplyDeleteJeannette: I'm not complaining.
Mr Nighttime: That's because they moved to Midtown Plaza (NE ledge). A place was all set up them, but they decided to go their own way. I like the written updates best on Rochester's site but the webcam on Hamilton's is way cool (updated every few seconds).
Maggie May: Haha, I was let down today, so went off to the park by myself.
What a nice idea! It's too cold to be blah here, more like BRRRR! Snow on our hills in the city today, and when I returned from my workt ravle last night there was a huge pile of hail on the top of my car. Welcome home indeed.
ReplyDeleteSagittarian: A hail and hearty welcome home! (sorry). It will be even hotter tomorrow it is promised by the weather people. So I may feel even lazier.
ReplyDeleteNothing wrong with lolling about in the sun!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I should suggest to my resident mama bird and her noisy babies that there is a lovely duplex in Hamilton they might be interested in, with friendly (if large) neighbours.
ReplyDeletefalcons? beautiful
ReplyDeleteI didn't know Ontario had hot weather and midges! Wish we could have a bit of summer here (NW UK) but all it does is rain. The grass and the weeds grow taller by the minute, and no chance of sitting outside, with or without coffee!!
ReplyDeleteMe too, I was thinking Canada is mostly cold and rarely hot. Very surprising to know that gives good signals to be hotter there:) May I make a rsvtn, lol:)
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm an xtraordinary one that Mr Sun always gives me a very good dynamism, and makes me feel super working one:) Weird? No, I'm typically under the Sun affect. How good fortune, that I don't live in London:)
Greetings from sunshiny & cloudless Ist'l~
28? You had 28 yesterday!!! We were supposed to have 24, but it was about 10 at lunchtime. But we have it today.Yep, we do... It actually felt like spring this morning rather than October!
ReplyDeleteIt's very warm here too, though cool in the apartment where I'm holed up. I don't care that much for bright sunlight. I like slightly overcast days. There will be no cheering from me in the hot sunshine. I like cooler weather and that does not effect my mood. It's the eternal sun blazing down that does me in. No, I don't want a tan either. Raindrops keep falling on my head. That's my tune.
ReplyDeleteMeggie: I can loll about with the best of them
ReplyDeletePinklea: no, no, no. I have seen what those birds of prey do to their captured birds. It is not pretty.
Char: I hadn't realized how beautiful until 3 years ago, now I'm addicted to watching them.
Gilly: they are probably not midges, nor are they fruit flies, but there are a gazillion of them swarming about and no-one seems to know what to call them. And yes, it gets quite hot here.
ReplyDeleteJazz: 33C it was when I was out an hour ago!
Irene: I also find the eternal blazing sun to be too much - actually quite energy sapping.
Nihal: Welcome, glad you stopped by. It feels like summer here now and soon the humidity will get the better of me.
ReplyDeleteNow wait a minute - even here we've hardly reached sultry weather. How is it too hot to do anything but sit there?
ReplyDeleteI love peregrin falcons and hawks in general. Various hawks (snowy owls, peregrin falcons and sparrowhawks) used to come to the back garden of my parents's place to hunt the birds there, often we could see them in the crabapple tree eating their catch.
ReplyDeleteCitizen: It's not so much that it is 'too hot to do anyhing but sit outside', rather that it is too nice to not sit outside, but it has cooled down again. Love those first few hot days - before the humidy sets in).
ReplyDeleteGuillaume: I prefer watching them swoop and do their aerial acrobatics than see what they do with their food.
I'm having one of those days today. The sea breeze is blowing in off the ocean, and I feel completely lazeeeee....
ReplyDeleteHi Sanna, I have an award for you over at my place. Please come and get it.
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