Is there Life after the Oilers?

Even though we still have snowdrifts in the backyard, check out what I found growing in the flower bed this afternoon!

Update on the "Change" thing, and a contest!

Well, you can see that the glaciers are indeed moving, and, I pray, receding. This image was taken April 11th. At this rate, we may see actual new growth by.......... ???

Now for some fun! Who will be the FIRST to identify the following image? Think real hard now. All of you have seen this object. What is it, and where is it? Tick tock, tick tock....

Change

To those of you that think things always stay the same, I have news for you. To those that say change is too slow, sit up and pay attention.

Observe, if you will the two images below.

Now, these two images clearly record the same backyard (mine, in fact). Yet there are obvious differences. The top one has more snow on the branches of the trees, more snow on the rooftops of the neighbouring houses, while the bottom image clearly, clearly shows that there has been some retreat of the snowdrifts in our yard. True, there is snow falling in the bottom photograph, so that point may soon be moot, however, the fact remains that at one time in the near past, there was actually old grass showing through the snowpack. This is kind of like "spot the differences" isn't it?

Now, here's the really amazing part. The bottom photo was taken yesterday, April 4th, while the top one was taken on November 15th, 2006 - hardly 5 months ago! See! Change does happen!