The view from my window

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Hat and gloves? (I know mittens but not touques)
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I misspelled it above, it’s toque (also spelled tuque).

It’s another Canadian-ism - a toque is a knitted hat one wears in the winter. I believe Americans call it a “beanie”. Toque is the common term here. If someone looks cold, one might ask them “where’s your toque, eh?”
 
Herbaceous said:
I misspelled it above, it’s toque (also spelled tuque).

It’s another Canadian-ism - a toque is a knitted hat one wears in the winter. I believe Americans call it a “beanie”. Toque is the common term here. If someone looks cold, one might ask them “where’s your toque, eh?”
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It’s also what MrsT and her sisters call it, being northern border girls at heart.
 
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The view from the restaurant window that we had linner (late lunch/early dinner) at today.
As we were waiting for our meals, down it came!
The weather forecast had predicted snow later on, not as early as this 🤷‍♀️
 
Just after sunrise this morning.

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It looks great, but brown and if you look more closely at the dams, you'll see the left hand on its almost dry and the right hand one is low.

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It's harder to tell how low the right hand one is unless you look carefully at the right hand end under the tree. It's about 2-2½m lower than it should be. Everything is waiting for rain.
 
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Just magical!
Yeah yeah yeah, you're thinking, AND?
`Member now, I'm just a little "Hay-Why-an" gal as my maternal Grandfather use to say, I'd never seen snow, up close and personal, before moving here to the Continental United States. And I tell y'all, here in Cowboyville Arizona, it can come down, often.
I was up all last night watching it come down, just magical with the Full Moon to boot!!!!
NOW!
I'll just let that gorgeous sunshine take care of the snow in the drive-we're not going anywhere.
 
Still a few bits on snow hanging in there, but mostly melted.
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My backyard tends to turn into a lake every spring during melt - that’s the giant pool of water in the far corner. Sometimes we even get ducks showing up to swim around in it!

It usually dries up within a few weeks, but if it’s really rainy it’ll reappear intermittently throughout the summer.
 
Barriehie said:
The crabapple tree is blooming. It did the same thing last year but it's getting old and didn't really make any fruit.View attachment 126646
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We had a whole load of fruit trees flower last year and despite seeing bees on them, not a single one produced any fruit. I think we had a frost just at the wrong time. So the pear trees, plum tree, prune tree and apricot tree flowers but didn't fruit, yet the apple trees all had fruit, as did other flowering bushes such as blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant, raspberries and several others like olive, fig, the grape wine and so on. Most of the trees here are +60yrs old with the exception of the olive trees (sadly). The lemon tree is a similar age as well. So I'm not sure that age has anything to do with it. The dual graft pear tree is over 60 yrs old as well and until this year has yield over 100kg of pears each year.

Hopefully next time round the weather will be in its favour again and we'll get fruit. But for this year, no fresh pears.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
We had a whole load of fruit trees flower last year and despite seeing bees on them, not a single one produced any fruit. I think we had a frost just at the wrong time. So the pear trees, plum tree, prune tree and apricot tree flowers but didn't fruit, yet the apple trees all had fruit, as did other flowering bushes such as blackcurrant, redcurrant, whitecurrant, raspberries and several others like olive, fig, the grape wine and so on. Most of the trees here are +60yrs old with the exception of the olive trees (sadly). The lemon tree is a similar age as well. So I'm not sure that age has anything to do with it. The dual graft pear tree is over 60 yrs old as well and until this year has yield over 100kg of pears each year.

Hopefully next time round the weather will be in its favour again and we'll get fruit. But for this year, no fresh pears.
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It was planted when the house was built in 1903. Whether or not it produces fruit isn't a big deal since we don't do much with crabapples but what it does do is bring in all kinds of pollinators. 👍
 
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