I love the life pushing out of the earth!
There are two mating pairs of geese in Spring Creek. One pair has produced 10 babies. Last year I think they had a brood of over a dozen. Either they're adopting, or just very fruitful! I know they're a nuisance but I love to watch them raise their young.
My Jack-In-The-Pulpit is blooming this year; that's a fitting flower for a minister!
The woodchuck took out my Korean lilac. If I want to plant a new one, they have 'em at the garden center in Greenleaf for less than I paid for this one! The lilac reminded me of Hyde Park in Chicago, where the yards around the brownstones are often fenced by blooming lilacs in the spring.
Why did the red fox cross Hwy 10? I don't know, but he sure looked preeetttyyy....
Once in awhile, I'm sitting in the swing, enjoying the view across the "mighty fine swamp", and a white heron rises out of the grass and takes flight over the marsh. Wow.
The orioles are back, but they haven't found my jars of jelly yet. In the meantime, an indigo bunting finished up the seed in the dish feeder, and the cedar wax wings finished up the crabapples and pecked at my apple blossoms (must've been a few bugs in there?)
The orioles found the jars of jelly today (5/20).
A little sparrow tries to get a very wide stick into a little hole for her nest. I watch her try and try to poke the stick through sideways. Finally, she flips it in her beak so one end is short and the other end long, and she slides sideways into the hole with her find. I'll never consider the term "bird-brained" in the same way!
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