Rain Results

We've had more than our share of rain...resulting in the

patio rocks becoming a haven for moss...there's a...

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patch of 4 leaf clovers next to the rocks...see if you

can find the 5 I found...and the one I missed.

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All the rain has resulted in numerous mushrooms
coming forth...like this small perfect one in my flower bed.

I found this perfect larger one in the woods....
although in the photo it appears smaller.



You get an idea of the size...compared to my shoe.




This large dead tree leaning in a dangerous way
was a result of all of our rainstorms too...it broke...




near the bottom and needs attention soon.


Can't hold it in place with a bungee cord...like I did
this sunflower that sprouted from a bird-dropped seed.




This one...already in bloom...was started by birds too.




The birds will carry the seeds over to the baby birds...
waiting in the trees to be fed. At first I thought
I was watching a Cardinal feeding it's off spring...
...but it was actually a young cowbird that
had been hatched unknowingly by the Cardinal.
Cowbirds sneak their eggs in other bird's nests.

The rain has helped our garden...especially the tomatoes.

These are plum tomatoes hanging heavy on the vine.

This was our first zucchini out of the garden...

it's already been eaten....

with some of this basil from the garden too.

I have my eye on this apple in the field...

I'm putting a tag on it that will say...Wanda's.

You can see the rain still on it...the field

was very wet...when I took this photo.

Also in the field this week were these two fawns...

I walked out slowly with my camera...

and stood.....quietly watching.

Then one started kicking up his heels and

playfully running around...moving too fast for

my camera...suddenly he was...

running straight toward me...no time to aim...

not that I was nervous or anything...

but that fawn ran a circle around me and then

back into the field he went just as quickly...

to catch up with the other one that had run

a little ways off.

After catching up...

he then ran circles around his friend...

more than a few times....then suddenly

he was headed back my way again...

I think he just wanted to play...

anyway...nervous as I was I thought to set the

camera on video...everything was happening so

quickly and taking photos wasn't working very well...

This fawn came up to me several times...

so here is a little of what I experienced!

Things You Can Find

This first week of May finds the trees sprinkled

with leaves of many different shades of green.
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In the flower garden...

the sun shines on one lone Poppy blooming....

shown here with it's fuzzy light green stem....

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it's soon to be followed by many others though.




Meanwhile the Korean Lilac my daughter gave me

on Mother's Day a few years ago is in full bloom.

This is Paper White Narcissus...

you can find it blooming here and there.

This is Fire Pink I found and transplanted from the woods...

which has multiplied to about 50 plants.

Here is a May Apple bloom...it's hard to spot...but

you can find it under the plant's enormous leaves.
I tilted them back for the photo.

The pink Trillium is creeping up to the yard...

from the woods...

and this is Spiderwort also found in the woods...

it too transplants and spreads very easily.

They spread by roots and by seeds dropped by the birds.

Birds like this Black-capped Chickadee...which my friend Teresa

and others call the "Cheese burger" bird...it's

song is a repeat of that phrase over and over and over.

Saturday I went to the field to check on the Bluebird's

nesting box.

While there I noticed some rather healthy looking

clover around the peach trees...

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on closer inspection...guess what I found...

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See if you can find 8 of these!!!...

The whole time I was finding "these"...

I had a nervous Bluebird watching my every move!

After I had a quick sandwich for lunch...

my grandson Andrew

came over and we took a walk in the woods.

One tree we found on the side of the hill...

had grown in an odd curve...and

then straight up a long distance.

Later we found another odd growing tree...

and the evidence of just why...

one might grow that way.

Eventually we ended up at the creek...

where I found a heart shaped rock...

and a bright orange rock!

While walking in the creek bed we came to this

large moss covered tree...

that had a rather large hole at the bottom of it...

in which I found rocks...lots of rocks...

rocks that wouldn't normally be there...

Turns out Andrew and his brother Dylan

placed them there last year and stacked a few more along side!

Heading back up the hill we ran into

a large dinosaur....uhhh...

...I mean Beech tree.

Andrew searched around and ended up finding

what boys look for...

a white claw...which he placed in the empty soda can.

As we were turning to leave a butterfly found us...

fluttering around and around our heads...

until it finally landed.

After getting to the top of the hill...home was in sight...

but we needed to rest...while Andrew studied the
carvings...I took a photo aiming up the tree...

It almost reminds me of something...but what...?
Maybe an upside down gray naked chicken...?

So the 8 four leaf clovers I found went in my book...

and Andrew's "2" claws he found went home with him...

and Herhusband found a good dinner.....later!

Have you found anything lately?