Snapshots of a Past April

Since I came across a drawerful of photos from our old dominion in Canada whilst very skimpily cleaning in my room, I thought I would dive into them and post excerpts. My bad photography and my bad Photoshoppery are colliding, but practice  will hopefully make things better.

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EASTER egg basket amidst bluebells and brown horsetails (late 90s?/2000?)

Taken at the foot of our lands. One can admire the impeccably tended lawn in foreground, hoary fencepost to neighbours' property to the right, delicate waxberry hedgery, and clusters of Shasta daisy (?) leaves, as well as red clover foliage to the left corner.

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PIKO the Rooster, taken at the same time as the above. (Perhaps ironically, the septic field above and behind the big house was a well shaded, pretty spot encircled with elms and horse chestnuts and a strange dark leafy evergreen, violets and mosses on the ground, a forsythia ringed by leopard's bane or winter aconite depending on the season, rhododendron shrubs, and, in autumn, the fallen chestnuts. It is to the leftward rear in this scene; nearby, we kept a chicken enclosure for a while — we rotated it so that the earth could recover from the depredations of the fowl —, and the thin posts are hinting at its perimeter. The orange cord is likely connected to a heat lamp that kept the fledgling chickens warm even after they had been rehoused outdoors. It must have been a late Easter, since the lawn is — it seems — already cut. On the other hand, we were probably not so good at waiting until the grass was sufficiently dry.)