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...

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...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...
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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...
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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.

Spent the Last Day

This was yesterday's golden sunrise, which led to

a beautiful warm day...the last day of March.

The bright early sun created long shadows in the yard...

Spring is here to stay...maybe!?!?!

...More plants are sprouting ...the daffodils are fuller...




The ornamental grasses are showing activity.....




...right along with this Eastern Phoebe...can you see him?

-photos enlarge-

The deer have more spring in their walk across the field...

and this squirrel is determined to enter the squirrel proof

bird feeder...every spring the younger squirrels have to learn...

they can't!

Alivia...my youngest grandchild...usually comes back

on Tuesdays...after Kindergarten to spend the day!

This small tree looked like this before she arrived...

After she was here awhile....

it ended up looking....

like this...

She decorated for Easter...

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and within minutes
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there was a squirrel checking it out!

Just hope they stay out of the spring-time wreath ...

Alivia and I made for the door!

Ater finishing outside, we went in for lunch...

I had made scalloped potatoes topped with zuchinni

the day before.

That's what blogging does to you...

you end up taking photos of food you make...

or

ones of your granddaughter doing dishes...

which she begs to do...honest!...
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Alivia always finds time to play with some dolls

while here...

and she did a little more Easter decorating too...

Then we went to the kitchen again....

and this time...it was to....

bake a cake...

which we and grampa...quickly cut into and ate!

So that is how I spent the last day of March...

"-which went out like a lamb- "

...just spending some special time with Alivia...

...and watching her move the Easter decorations...around !!!