Killarney Pines at Sunset
Philip Sybal
2003

by artist JB Cornish

#JamesBarryDiary 18/4/1876 A moderately fine day indeed, sunny the most of the time. Jordan sawing in the day time and Henry in the night time. I did nothing about the mill to day, but was in the little shop and Blacksmiths shop all day, making ornaments for Bookbinding and some other nicknacks.

the first rain
in days and
the green outside

is so green
and blithe
that the eyes

can't hold it;
a poem tries

It's nest building time for some songbirds already! This morning I spotted this female American Robin with a beakful of nesting material.

it's window-up season
and my ears
are my eyes
and my heart
is happy

Close-up of a white dogwood blossom, blurred around the edges, like a bride through dream eyes

every time I step
outside in spring
I breathe and fall
in love

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A Tufted Titmouse perched on a branch that is starting to show some greenery. Things are really starting to leaf out this week! 🌿

Male Common Grackles (bronzed subspecies) strutting their stuff on the boardwalk.

Beach on Vancouver Island
Arthur Lismer
1963

Spring Ploughing
Maud Lewis
c. 1958

Nocturne
Tom Thomson
1916

Portrait of a Black man wearing black robes and with a white collar.

Typeset page, the title page of "Narrative of the Lord’s wonderful dealings with John Marrant".

Bio of the Day: John Marrant (1755–91), freeborn Black American, author, and minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. He had a lasting impact on historical and literary trends among Black people in North America and Africa.
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The Queen of the Boardwalk, a Northern Cardinal, is busy working on her nest!

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A male Downy Woodpecker snags a tasty grub from a cattail after hammering away at the husk. The Downy's small size allows them to perch on cattails which cannot support heavier woodpeckers.

A Black-capped Chickadee on full alert for peanuts (the Chickadee was offered one right after this photo.)

Daffodils
Molly Lamb Bobak
n.d.

A male Eastern Bluebird that was flying from cattail to cattail, occasionally diving down into the reeds to look food.

Spring at the Lake
Sarah Robertson
n.d.

A Golden-crowned Kinglet takes a break from looking for food in an Eastern Red Cedar to sing his high pitched song.

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Sunrise.

A Cedar Waxwing flying off to join the rest of the flock. Cedar Waxwings are sociable birds and like to be in flocks year-round.

Old and New Forest
Emily Carr
1935

Sandhill Crane on a rainy day.

Spring Flight
Benjamin Chee Chee
1975

An old chapel obscured by a blossoming tree

Cleansing walk by an 11th-century chapel and blossoms.