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  1. Wonderful, Lynette; this is truly lovely. The Spring time energy is coming through with that sense of refreshing renewal. Such beautiful content & thank you for sharing this photographic narrative of early spring moments with us.

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    1. Thank you very much, Talkmore. You always leave such thoughtful and supportive comments. We are apparently about to get a drop in temperatures (from 15 or so to about 6 or 7) for a couple of days while winter has a last try at re-asserting itself but after that we are supposed to be finished with it here on the southern west coast and southern interior of British Columbia. Yay!

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      1. Wow, thank you for the update Lynette; your comments are so enlightening as usual; and with you in Spirit. My thoughts of course go out to those who may be sadly vulnerable to these particular cold spells where you are. & At least warmer days are around the corner for you guys.

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        1. You’re very welcome, Talkmore. My pleasure. There’s usually a lot of help available for people who need it to get through the cold. Yes, it won’t last long and we will be back on track again soon. Winter always has to have a last word!

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    1. Thank you very much, Suzette. 🌸 Yes, these are very good signs. Right now I’m listening to the birds chittering through the open deck door. So wonderful but apparently winter is doing a last kick at the can tomorrow and we’ll have several days of lower temperatures, rain and overcast.

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        1. Hahaha. 😊 It’s interesting what scares us when we’re little. I always was afraid of clowns. I’m not afraid any more but I still don’t like them and will avoid circuses. No fighting from the mallard ducks. They’re incredibly easy-going. 😊

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  10. Looks like a blustery day Lynette. Great seeing all the flowers coming forth. I think the time change brought in a real gusty day here, with winds up to 80 k/h. Flowers are still a couple of months away. Have a wonderful DST day. Allan

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    1. These were taken over a couple of days but yes, one of them was quite windy down at the water’s edge. Apparently winter is doing a last kick at the can tomorrow and we’ll have several days of lower temperatures, rain and overcast. I think it’s supposed to reach you, too. And DST? Ugh. What a mess. I think we’ll last a year on this moronic nonsense idea and then the pressure will be on to reverse it.

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      1. Sunny and gusty here right now. A high of +5, but temps have dropped in the last hour to +2. My neighbour had an evergreen tree topple over onto his house, so windy it is. As to DST, I do not understand the need to pout everyone’s circadian rhythm at risk for an extra hour of daylight in the winter. Do they not know that school kids will be going to school in the dark for longer and the extra hour of daylight in winter will see most folks at work or driving home. The sooner the light hits, the sooner our body boots up. There is no need to reinvent the science.

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        1. Thank you very much, Anneli. I’ve worried more about the eagles looking for lunch but then I realised that it would be very difficult for them to swoop in and grab because the pond is small and surrounded by trees and shrubs. That would be a demanding flight manoeuvre, even for an eagle.

          I know that the city parks gardeners remove turtles from the pond as I saw them doing that one time. They also spent some time in the autumn removing carp from the pond too as they are invasive and causing serious problems in the Thompson-Okanagan. I read recently that the koi in the pond are apparently going to be allowed to die out naturally as they will interbreed with carp and add to the issues for the kokanee and trout.

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          1. Good points about the eagles.
            Much as I like turtles, I wondered about their impact, especially if they become a good size (I don’t know how big the Okanagan turtles are – about 8 to 10 inches long?)
            But the koi (a carp relative, I believe) can be a problem for the trout. I’ve heard of that becoming an issue in other places. So I’m glad to hear that the keepers of the ponds are being pro-active.

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          2. The western painted turtle is native here and grows to about 25 cm (10 inches) at most. The parks workers were removing invasive turtles (turtles people had dumped there, usually red-eared sliders). The western painted turtles aren’t endangered but are under stress apparently including from invasive turtles.

            Yes, koi are related to carp and will easily interbreed with them. But it’s the carp or carp-koi hybrids that cause the issues, especially for trout and salmon.

            The parks workers and gardeners here are wonderful. There’s so much to do, especially around the specialty gardens, beaches, and flower installations everywhere and they do it all so well.

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