There have been a few intermittent days of sun between...
drenching days of rain. It has rained 18 of the past 23 days!
~all photos enlarge~
It has been a 'VERY WET' Spring!
Walking down my favorite path has been...
a slippery exercise of caution!
The Fern Valley Path takes me past Alivia's Treasure Tree!
This is looking back from a level area to the path up the hillside...
that I just traveled down...coming from the backyard.
I can always find picturesque mushrooms in this area...
on the old fallen trees and stumps.
This is another favorite hillside that's behind the garden in the field.
It overlooks a creek and is fairly steep...but deer have made paths...
that make it manageable.
The turtles manage the climb and seem to like it here too.
This was a very small one I discovered there.
Three others that I have come across.....since I last posted.
I try to keep an ongoing list of individual turtles...
by comparing their shell designs. NOT- a simple task!
On returning home one day...this is what greeted me!
Very cute, but very helpless and seemed to have left the nest a little too soon for it's own good.
Herhusband gently placed the Titmouse back for a few more days of maturing. See it peeping out? Maybe...it's learned...
...to be cautious.
When I last posted...the covering of leaves was just barely there.
Later...the Locust and Honeysuckle blooms came in thick!
Here's a sampling of wild flowers appearing in the woods.
They spread and thicken more and more each year!
I've naturalized some to my flower garden.
The yellow Two-flowered Cynthia...the red Fire Pink...
& the blue Spiderwort are doing well.
Mr. Toad returned and is doing well too!
The Indigo Bunting returns to the feeder each Spring...
but mostly stays deep in the woods during Summer.
The Flickers are year round visitors. These two played hide-and-seek and danced around this Dogwood tree for twenty minutes.
I wish my Iris, Poppies and Roses were year round visitors. At least...unlike the Iris and Poppies... the Roses will bloom all summer!
A few other sightings were of the Goodyear Blimp, a baby squirrel, Pileated Woodpecker, a Bluebird couple, an 'expectant' mother deer, a resting Dove...
and a visiting Grandson Grant...
(who's doing very well...along with his Uncle Rick)!
A few of the meals prepared here and there.
Desserts are fruity this time of year.
Strawberry-Kiwi Shortcake &
Mango-Peach-Pecan-Delight Cake!
I was delighted to see a heart-shaped light coming through...
at the top of this old dead tree!
...and...
I was extremely delighted to see this cautious tiny fawn
creeping into my flower garden.
More on the fawn and his 'adventurous' first few days of life!
In my next post of course!
~ ♥ Wanda ♥ ~
