Morning Discoveries

One morning I discovered this beautiful little bird...

a Purple Finch...

sitting on a small pile of rocks out back...

seeming to just be taking in the view...

and then doing a little exploring on the ground.

The same morning I discovered this cute Lady Bug

underneath a Sunflower leaf...wet with rain.

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But then...

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every morning...
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I discover a Lady Bug ...
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greeting me with a smile!





I pass it on my way to check the small new garden
just off the back deck...where I have growing...
tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and peppers.





In the past...I have grown
small size tomatoes in a pot on the deck...




which Alivia would carefully pick by the armful...

and sometimes...

just stare intently at what she first picked!

Herhusband has a larger garden over in the field...

lots of cucumbers were grown there last year...

and a few Sunflowers for the birds.

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The Parsley...

Rosemary...and...

Basil are also my responsibility to grow...

along with all the flowers of course...

like the Yarrow...shown here

with the Wild Fire Pink from the woods...

and here..
an Asiatic Lily, Veronica, and Russian Sage

in the back...plus a little Autumn Joy...

then some Roses and Mexican Primroses...

along with a few Wild Daisies in the back.

Then there's some shade loving Hostas

around a small birdbath which needs cleaned.

Out of five birdbaths...there's always one

that needs to be cleaned.

These shade loving Fern came from the woods.

Something else I discovered this morning...

coming from "wood"...

water vapors rising from the fence.

If you enlarge this photo you may see

Bluebirds sitting at the end of the same fence.

Enlarge this photo and I hope you see raindrops

falling to the fence from the leaves.

The nicest thing I discovered this morning...

was

the Mother Deer and Fawn visiting again...

out by the wishing well...

just coming out of the woods...

and off down the drive they went...

but they will be back...as I hope you will be too!