On Any Given Day

On Tuesday morning...

we were surrounded by this misty vapor after

a night of rain...

...it had slowly floated out of the valleys beside our home.

It was a warm moist air and I wanted photos...

...the next thing I knew...I was headed for the field...

where I followed the fence line into the woods.

For me...it's my form of exercise.

Along the way I took photos of wet

Dutchman's Breeches among the Ramps...

an unopened May Apple dripping with water ...
which children use for umbrellas...



more Anemones...




and a hillside covered with Ramps...wild leeks.

Just behind me is a rather large Tulip Tree...
with a trunk about 4 ft. across...




which parts about 12 ft. up and looks like two
separate trees...the limb going off to the right...is about
30 ft. high and is where...

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Herhusband hung a swing for the grandchildren
several years ago...
which I and my Mother both enjoyed too.




Remember a few photos back of the hillside with the ramps...

well...this swing would take you up and out over that hillside...

Just a little scary...but it was fun...I say was because...


the rope broke...it needs repaired...and it's wet.



Now we will go back through the field

to the opposite hillside over behind the house.


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Here we are...back behind the house...

looking at the tree swing on the far hill across the valley.


Over here I found some "tree art" done by...
Mother Nature and a Woodpecker most likely...


and this tall stump looks like someone may live in it...
can't reach to see inside...


and this short stump that must have things inside...
that a woodpecker wants.


still...more Anemones...



also found...was moss covered trees...



...both big and small...




There was a moss covered exposed root...
that reminded me of a turtle...



of which I found a shell.



We do have the area posted with signs...but foxes and raccoons
don't read and we always find evidence of their hunting.

This sign made 10 years ago...use to say Deer Path...

it too needs repaired...
.

that is the name of this path made by deer...

it's the "easy" way over to Andrew and Dylan's home...
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I took this path yesterday in the sunshine..

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On the way.....there's another tree with a hole...

I've heard them tell stories of animals jumping out!

Their dad built a deck over on their hillside.

From their deck...they come down this hill...

cross over the creek...

go over this easy path...

and then they go.....straight up this hill!

...they take the "hard" way...

I did too...but that's the last time!

At the top of the hill...

is home...

where "on any given day" you might see this...

a Northern Cardinal and Goldfinches

or this...

a Red Shouldered Hawk!

Followed Me

Numerous white clouds floating under a bright blue sky...

appearing to be just above the tree tops...

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were what greeted us Thursday morning...

making me want to hurry outside...

where I spied my first wild violet of the season...

.

...and there are many more violets yet to bloom...

along with my yellow pansies...

...but the pink hyacinth blooms just once!

Warm mornings in the spring usually mean...

a little work of some kind.

This morning's job...

is to create a (small) vegetable garden...

near the kitchen door.

I'm hoping the compost we made...

which needed to be spread...


makes our future plants grow as well as this...

very healthy wild dandelion I found while working!


Remember the beautiful white clouds and blue sky...


well...by Friday morning they looked like this...


and were accompanied with a sprinkling rain...

so...I took a walk...and you can follow me...in the rain!

I started out along the perimeter of the woods...
in the front yard...



and made my way down toward a small bridge...
made by Herhusband...over to a ridge...



...that leads to a small water hole...
which isn't big enough to be called a pond.



From there I took the lane...


that leads to our drive which goes by the cemetery...
before passing the field...into which I went!


The pink blossoms on the peach trees in the field
...were dressed with raindrops.



The pear blossoms wore them too!


Even though I was wearing my share of rain drops too...
I headed past the garden area lined with forsythia...
.


toward the winding creek in the woods...


where I spotted my first white trout lily of the season...


and this monument looking stump!

Deeper into the woods you can find Birch trees

with their distinctive white bark.

Notice the understory growth
of green shrubbery on the south facing hill...

now from the same spot...but turning left to the north

facing hill...it's less green...but will be covered with

shade loving fern later in the season.
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I like the large Elm trees in this area with their

distinctive bark...and protruding roots...

on this trunk are engravings made years ago...

I think near the center I can make out 1930.
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Here you can see more raindrops clinging.

As I turned back up the hill to go home...

a bird started singing...it had been very quiet...
.

The singing moved from tree to tree as I walked...

I kept trying to locate the source and get a photo...

as I walked the path home...but failed.

Leaving the woods and in the yard...about to go in...

I heard the same singing.

Over in the trees...I just passed under...I spotted the source.

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It was a Brown Thrasher...

I like to think it followed me home.