Leaving "The County" on the Glenora Ferry. 

We have declared this to be The Year of the Lilac. 

Horses in "The County" 

Prince Edward County, May 2006 

Bluebird after the rain 

Most definitely, an Eastern Bluebird! This is an auspicious day. 

SQUEEEEEEE!!! I just saw a bluebird! This is the first time I've ever seen one in real life! 

I've never wanted a tattoo ..

.. but in a few decades' time, I might get one like the one that retired nurse Mary Wohlford has.

Candlelight and tulips 

Tulips, backlit with a candle. 

Another artsy tulip shot. The tulips are from my garden. The artwork above the tulips is a pencil sketch done by my great-great uncle, Isaac Cullin. 

Blossoms, blossoms everywhere 

I didn't think this picture would turn out very well, but I like it. 

A touch of pink 

More trilliums 

Trilliums  

The Lilac Cafe, with high speed wireless internet service, is open for business. 

Artsy tulip shot 

Note to self: clean up tulip bed. 

The prettiest tulip in my very weedy front flower bed. 

It's almost Lilac Day .. by Monday, they should be in full bloom. 

What are these? I didn't plant them, yet there they are in the flower bed on the south side of my house. Hmmm. 

DaVinci Madness

I'm fashionably late to this party, but I finally read The DaVinci Code last week. I thought it was an excellent novel, and I'm looking forward to the movie.

Others - well, not so much. In India, the Catholic Secular Forum has called for Christians to launch a hunger strike - to the death if necessary - to protest the movie.

Now there's a brilliant idea - starve yourself to death, and then you can ask Jesus Himself if he was married to Mary Magdelene or not.

Oh, wait a minute - deliberately starving oneself would be suicide, no? And that's a mortal sin, no?

The jokes just write themselves, don't they?

My little friend in our obviously un-chemically treated back yard. 

Breakfast time for Bunny 8 May 2006, 0615 

Where all the cool turtles hang out 

Swim, turtle, swim!