Street Ducks and Laundry

Some of the vistas in Ashland are less simpatico than others....

Street ducks still there. You don't want to mess with a street duck.

Oh, Boy! More Goldfinches! Tweet! (And Two Pine Siskins)

Tweet, tweet! (translation: My seeds! Mine!)

Twenty of 'em. Coulda widened field to about 60, but then they're such tiny dots in photo and it's harder to make out the females.

Pine siskins demand equal time.

Gosh! If you actually go outside, and stop shooting through windows, they get sharper!

An Abundance of Goldfinches!

13. Count 'em: 13.

Ok. I Carried the Boxes of Books Upstairs. Phew!

Easter Guest!

Well, its kinda habitable, now.

Snack Depot

Room of Leisure

Though Leisure to Snack Depot

Comfy

Comfy with Boxes of Books until I carry them upstairs.

Never Dull!

Ha ha ha haaaaa! Snoofles strikes again! Three bags full, yes Sir, yes, Sir! But NOT my garbage this time. Thanks, Snoofbaby.

Truly odd ducks. Pair of mallards (she is behind him--click to enlarge (MOM)), not worried about cars, in teeeeensy puddle.

Oh, my! Could this be the first flat of strawberries of the season? I ain't tellin'--git yor own!

My guests at lunch time. They did not help me sort recycling from the dross of unpacking the move.

But, in compensation, they did not eat alpine violets, monarda (bee balm), or the other plant that is supposed to be deer-proof. Happy Easter! Mom has begged off of her trip to See's Candies this year, so your donations of chocolate are especially important during this Easter Pledge Chocolate Drive.

Goldfinches by the dozen!

Playing hard to get....

THE place to be.

Just the gardening staff....

Eeeeeeek! The movers came!

Approaching Nirvana...

Once you find the chocolate essence, welcome it, become one...

...and nothing is impossible. Eat chocolate. Believe. Live.
(with thanks to Guru KeiMonkey)

The Song of Bunnikins Cottontail!

 

La, la, la, (sung). Me, me, me, me, me....

Here comes Bunnikins Cottontail

Hopping down the bunny trail...

 Hippety-hoppety, Easter's on its way....

Bringing every girl and boy...

 

Baskets full of Easter joy...

 

Hipp-

....  Hey. You are a bird, not a bunny!

 

That's better

(sung) Hippety-hoppety....

Easter's on-

HEY!

 

(sung) Eas-

You birds! This is a BUNNY song! BUNNY!

 

Arrrrgh! Bunny-- B_U_N_N_Y--song!

Bunnybunnybunnybunnybunnybunnybunnybunnysong!

 

Phew... ahem.

(sung) Easter's on its waaAAAAYYYY!

Send Chocolate, please.

Rogue Creamery and The Place that Makes Chocolates Next Door

More adventures? Too right!

Testing the cheese at the Rogue Creamery. Excellent blue. Solid aged cheddar.

Chocolate place next door. Easter zombie bunnies...

Not sure if you can see the ones in the foreground. They're sorta zombie-gross. (Click on image, if you will.)

Getting ready for Easter

I turn my back on you for one second and this is what happens!!

Chef Topham to the rescue. Cool it guys!

Delicious lunch--albeit sans wine--by the lovely Applegate River, in Cantrall Buckley County Park, off 238 between Applegate and Ruch. Brief sampling of vineyards today failed to discover wine worth tendering legal in trade. If hip to bons vins in the Rogue Valley, dish, please.