Peaceful and Vibrant

The Poppies are popping out and the Iris are rising up

.....on this early misty morning at sunrise...

which looked like this earlier...peaceful water colors...

and the reason I came out...

which led to taking photos of the more vibrant colors...

in the yard...like...the oranges and purples.

the glowing purple Iris...

and the fiery orange Poppy...


But...one can easily find things for...
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calm...
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serene...
.
peaceful photos...
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like this Robin sitting on a nest...



a nest with 4 vibrant blue eggs to begin...



and 4 peaceful baby Robins in the end...




and here's 4 leaf clovers again...

Too easy - just 2


I had spotted a chipmunk going into his tunnel...
with the clover peacefully standing guard.


Here's more peaceful water color flowers

in the yard...

Fern and Great Waterleaf

The light lavender Waterleaf and peaceful blue Ajuga



Family of five pale peaceful Jack in the Pulpits




When I took my walk last week with Andrew...

we came upon this cool peaceful scene in the woods...





I also liked this tree...if you enlarge and look closely...
you can see that it abruptly ends.....a tree behind makes it
difficult to see...photographer's fault!
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Just a unique grape vine in the woods!
Do you see anything?
Andrew saw a go-cart...Dylan saw a "pac-man" face!

Photos of Andrew near a cliff...

Don't slip Andrew!

Oh no!

Just kidding Cindy(Mom)...it only looks dangerous.


After spending time with Andrew that day...

Granddaughter Amanda came by for a visit. She
just finished her 2nd year of college...this summer she is
editing a manuscript of a professor's book.

She's peaceful and vibrant!

Then a few hours later...
Grandson Dustin stopped by. While having dinner
at a restaurant with his parents and brother Grant...
Dustin...being a licensed EMT...was able to assist a
patron that was having a seizure or stroke.

He's peaceful and vibrant too!

I've had a fulfilling week with nature and grandchildren...

so I made Herhusband a few fulfilling meals!

Peppers Fettuccine with Salmon...



and Banana Coconut Pecan Bread with
Coconut Lime Glaze



Yesterday morning...I went out...with camera...
again very early...peacefully quiet...except for birds!



Took this photo on my way to back yard...
It's a Solomon's Seal plant that's not quite open yet...
which sprouted here on it's own last year.

It will open to this soon...

This is just proof that I do work sometimes...

and I do get distracted sometimes by birds...

like this Rose-breasted Grosbeak at the feeder...

they have a vibrant red neck!
We have two sets of them this year and I can't get a

decent photo...but if you look in the upper left corner

you can see the female...she really blends in!

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Female

Later while working in the herb garden...

something else caught my eye...well
I actually heard it first.

It's half way up the skinny tree...to the left of center...

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a Pileated Woodpecker

He eventually flew to a tree right above me...

I just barely managed a quick photo of his

...vibrant red head...
before he went even higher.

He stayed about 20 minutes...all the while...

calling to another in the distance.
I recorded his call...
..."warning"...

It's not peaceful!!!

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?