Lappiness happiness

It was sort of a spring-like day early Febrary for a walk along the Bow in Fish Creek. This time I wore the traction aids and had a great walk between Bankside and Mallard Point. However there wasn't much that caught my eye. 

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3. I was impressed with the beavers. There's several places they've demonstrated their tree-felling abilities. Probably much to the despair of the people trying to manage the river valley ecosystem.

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6. The infamous albino cobra chicken was giving me major stink eye.

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Of the Day

Driftwood

And a serendipity from the bird sanctuary.

Peony

Lily

Celina and Linda, and where I got the blog title from. Celina has been very demanding about lap time lately. In our house the person with a cat in their lap gets asking privileges. They can ask the other human to put on tea or get a drink. All to keep the cat (formerly the cats) happy. Which is why we've never had more than two cats, one for each lap. We miss Curtis, he was such a good lap cat. Yes, we've been thinking about getting another one, but we remember the struggle with Amelia and Bernard. That wasn't good, not even slightly. 

Film

I struggled with the composition here, both digitally and on film. At first I really liked the chunk of driftwood and it's reflections, but the more I looked at it the less I liked it. The reflections of the trees are nice, and I was working on framing it with the ugly bridge. You can't tell, but for this I'm up against a fence wishing I could get down the river itself. In the end it is what it is.