Lots of sunshine, very few clouds and totally rain free today. Thankfully we have a strong wind blowing so all flies were blown away. I really should have mowed the lawn but the energy just wasn’t there in my body. For once I had problems falling asleep yesterday night, I guess because I had that long nap earlier in the day and perhaps that last cup of tea a bit late as well.
I did wake up early though, just before 5 am so not many hours of sleep to be honest. We went out on our morning walk quite early as well and walked down to the creek again. Alma was thankfully rather quiet when we passed our newest neighbours so their dogs stayed quiet as well 🙂 🙂 I think they too are morning people since they horses, dogs, cats and chickens but it is still nice that Alma could stay reasonable quiet 🙂
Nothing special happened during our walk until we were almost at home again, one of the fox cubs stood beside the gravel road and this time I could get a few photos of it. It didn’t notice us because it was looking at the other direction and we stopped rather early so we wouldn’t scare it away. Alma started to whine loudly but for once she listened to me and just looked at the fox. It still has its baby fur but has grown rather large so I guess it won’t be long before it is time for it to find its own new home.
Besides the cub the day has been rather uneventful, The food for next week at work is cooking at the moment, the laundry is done and it dried up really fast in the wind and sunshine. Also I’ve repotted my tomato plants in to bigger pots, one has flower so with a bit of luck I’ll have a tomato or two by the end of next month 🙂
I think it is time for a bowl of cornflakes and I’ll skip that last cup of tea for the day. The dogs and I had pancakes for dinner and even if I gave them half a pancake extra I still feel a bit too full 🙂
Have a great day!
The Cottage by the crane lake. 
I love your photos — no matter the weather or lighting they always have a gentle, thoughtful mood to them. Cool that you glimpsed the fox cub and caught it on film! I bet that now your tomatoes are blooming you’ll see many more.
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Hi Goodport!
Thank You 🙂
I’m sure You’re right and if I remember it right these are cocktail tomatoes so I might get more than a few this year 🙂
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Glad you got to photograph the fox. We rarely see them here in the country (just coyotes). We are getting a rain and hail storm as I write this. I had the presence of mind to cover the tomato plants beforehand. So hopefully there isn’t too much damage, but it sounds awful when it pounds the house.
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Hi ppekka!
We don’t have coyotes so we see them quite often here, too few wolves around and the lynx tries to avoid them so the chances are big to see them but as adult, the cubs only rarely.
I do hope Your tomato plants survived the hail! We rarely get big hail but the normal sized does enough damage as it is.
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Even though you were taking the photo at a distance, understandably, the fox was clearly visible and glad it wasn’t scared off this time. You are fortunate in being able to dry laundry outdoors, but then using an indoor dryer has its advantages as well. We had morning fog on Sunday, but then the temps will be heating up again this week. The plant buds photographed beautifully, Christer.
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Hi Beatrice!
We were lucky and if I see it again I also hope it brings its siblings 🙂
It always smells so much nicer when it dries outdoors but to be honest, I can’t fit a dryer anywhere in this cottage 🙂 🙂 🙂
Really hot tomorrow here but on Thursday it’ll drop down to more normal temperatures again, with rain of course 🙂 🙂
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