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Eagle Viewing at Harrison-Chehalis Flats

The Bald Eagle Halia ‘eetus leucocephalus

B.C’s largest raptor. They have a wing span around 6 to 7 feet, can weigh between 5.5 to 13 pounds. They have acute vision, six to seven times better than a human’s. Their main food sources are fish and carrion. A bald eagles life span can exceed 30 years.

It takes five years before they develop the white head and tail feathers.

After the breeding season ends in late July or early August, the Lower Mainland bald eagles migrate north for a few months. They then return in late September or October to their nest sites. Thousands of northern birds also come south, their numbers usually peaking in early December. They congregate on the Harrison River and other nearby salmon spawning streams to feast on salmon carcasses. When the eagle nesting season starts in late January and February, the northern breeders will begin to leave. Over 250 pairs of eagles will remain to nest in the lower Fraser Valley.

Bald eagles mate for life but will find a new mate if one dies.

Harrison Hot Springs Hotel Lobby

Beautiful, understated decorations.  Very inspiring.

Port Mann Crossing into the Clouds

Heading to the Mainland

Anniversary trip

Waiting for BC Ferries to float us across to another world.

Maple Freezie

Brrrrr!!!!

Old and Gnarly

Some days this is how I feel too.

Forty-one Years Married

Might as well go for Gold . . .

Rainy December Day

Going to sit by the fire and crochet.

Christmas Lights

Christmas Lights on the Tiny House.  So cheery and welcoming.

Making Space For Ourselves

Sometimes it is necessary
to pull away
from those who love us,
those we love
in order to find out what we think,
what we feel,
who we are
without their expectations
pulling us in different directions.

Sometimes we need to learn to love ourselves
by being alone with our own doubts and thoughts
for a time,
to see our own reflection
without their shadows behind us.

They may see it as abandonment,
selfish or uncaring
but those who truly love,
know the seeds they planted
take time and space
to thrive

and that we become
who we are
because of their love
not in spite of it.

©2018 Sharron R. McMillan

Too Late

 

In A Perfect World

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frosted hazel nut catkins

Getting caught up in anger
over the way things ‘should be’
we fail to see what is –
beauty, order, incredible colours,
animals, seasons, fruit, sky,
awesome beauty –

Why do we fail to see it.
Why does our focus narrow down to such smallness
as money, things, what we have
or do not have.

One needs only to stand outside at night,
look up at stars, moon,
listen to rustle of cedar boughs,
peep of tiny birds finding places to sleep in the eaves,
smell coldness of crisp air.

It is perfect.
The world is perfect.
It is our perspective that is not.

©1999 Sharron R. McMillan

Fac, si facis

Fac, si facis – Do it if you’re going to do it

Enthusiasm

Enthusiastic Rhododendron, filling up its space

There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
~Norman Vincent Peale