Happy spring! (FINALLY.)

I've been a busy beaver the last month! Unfortunately, most of  it, I can't show you, so let's pretend it never happened and get back to our regularly scheduled program, yes?

However, as I was saying above, Spring finally arrived here in Southern Ontario, and as I have done last fall and the previous winter, I thought I'd share our walk with our sweet boy (that would be Tyler the Wonder Dog), yesterday.


The lake was an incredible colour.  More...
One of the things I love so much about living close to a great lake, is the way the water's colour changes with the seasons - from pale, icy gray-green in the winter through cerulean blue in the summer, and a sharp, sapphire blue in the late fall.



The birds were out with their babies,


The pines were in bud...




and so was everything else...



Even the ever-present CN Tower looked scrubbed clean.



We saw old friends...


and new!


... like this kind of duck that I've never seen here before. I don't even know what kind of duck it is, but his plumage is gorgeous. Check out that orange ruffle on his wing!  (After doing some research, I thought it might be a Bufflehead who had gone astray, but having looked at some more of them, he remains unidentified. Anyone know?)

I love the layer-cake effect of the colours of the lake and sky...


... and the windsurfers enjoying this windy day.




(I love this shot with his sail looking like a moon in the sky and its shadow like a big fish in the sea!)



All in all...



 It was a day on which it's great to be alive. :)


Even Tyler couldn't stop smiling!