Three pies worth!

Our blackbirds.

Enough for at least three pies! :)

Their numbers have swelled in the last few days. Their song echos around the meadow. We counted more than seventy red winged blackbirds this afternoon! They decorate the view out our kitchen window and grace our trees with their beautiful flashes of colour!

Moose the lamb

Our newest and last lamb of the year just a couple of hours old here ~ we have named this little guy ' Moose' ! He is a big lamb; long legged and long bodied. That's a portrait of his mom below. Her name is Snowball and Moose is her first lamb. It was a difficult birth for her but she's doing beautifully now and is proving to be an awesome mom! Moose is finding his legs and learning how to keep his big head up. It's been snowing the last few days. All three lambs and their moms are still in their comfy lambing apartments till it's a bit more spring like outdoors. Soon they'll be bounding about out on fresh spring grass and as Matthew; one of our wood ring folks said " ...they'll be making the place look like an Easter greeting card come to life!" :) It's lunch time and we're just warming up one of our favourites ~ homemade (of course) split pea soup. mmmm.

The new lambs ~ a few pics.

St Pat's Day.

St Patrick's Day on the meadow.

Red winged black birds singing high atop the old spruce trees at the main gate.

Coyote wakes up from his afternoon siesta in the middle of the open meadow and the moose pay no attention.

Our resident cow and her two calves grazed for a couple of hours on the ridge across the creek. They are so comfortable with us; it's a lovely thing. We hanker for a telephoto lens so that we can really get close up and personal.

And indoors, our kitchen table tulips reach full bloom. Another spectacular day.