Yesterday morning...this was my orchid's first bloom!
Yesterday morning...
...this was the view from my living room!
After two weeks of March's Spring-like weather with rain...
we woke to find the yard blanketed in snow once again.
Not very deep...but puffy and bright...
...and in the far tree...guess what was in my sight.
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His form was obvious...perched up so high...
His reason for being there...I knew why.
He quietly sat viewing the snow covered field....
...searching the span...for what it might yield!
Suddenly...he flew away...
giving up...until another day.
Yesterday's snow left just as quickly too.
Today the gazebo...was sporting Blue!
The Bluebirds returned...I knew they would.
It's Spring!!!
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It's been nice enough for several walks through the woods.
This creek is directly behind the house.
There are two others...one to the north and one to the south.
At least that's how I speak of them!
While walking alone last week...
I took these photos of the tree...that Alivia and I found last Spring.
It's hollow and one could actually crawl through...
"IF".....one wanted too.
These are just photos of fallen trees...
changes that take place...season to season.
On the path home...
a large log sprouting a little moss...
a hummingbird tree(?)...
a bench full of nut shells left by the squirrels...
and ornamental grass...cut back by Herhusband!
Meals that keep us working and walking...
Baked pasta dishes...soups and salads...
Stir fries and veggie burgers.
Spinach ravioli...veggie sausage and apples...
Oriental noodles with mushroom sauce...
Pasta with Mexican theme...
Baked potato with Greek yogurt and sun-dried tomatoes.
Peaches on pound cake...Blueberry muffins...
Greek yogurt with bananas and granola.
Poppy seed muffin with cherries and Dutch apple pie.
Desserts....help with the energy it takes...
to walk up and down...all the hills in the woods.
On this walk to the south creek...
I saw grandson Dylan with a friend far below.
I followed them for awhile...
...then went off on my own.
Not much new that day...just more fallen trees...
some on the ground...
...some hung-up...high...
...some lay across the creek....like a small bridge.
In the creek itself...one can find
rocks with stripes and little pyramid shapes...
spooky faces...almost like 'The Scream'...
rocks that have split and large ones under fallen logs.
A few heart shapes can always be found.
Some need a little more imagination than others.
There's five below!
Granddaughter Alivia accompanied me on a walk one day.
We walked to the creek on the north side...
and spotted a black ladybug on the south side of a tree!
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With Alivia...one always ends up walking 'in' the creek...
under and over fallen logs.
We found this rock lying on a log...
maybe I placed it there last Fall and forgot!
I left it...to see how long it remains.
Alivia was given a camera by her big sister...Amanda.
She took photos of things we saw...
fallen logs with strange patterns...
and foot prints of a raccoon...
while I took photos of her.
There's not much going on in the woods just yet.
Just mostly hues of browns and grays...
except for Alivia's pink and green.
There is the occasional sunny blue sky...
and the rainy days are coaxing the green...
from the ground and fallen logs too.
I will soon have yellow Daffodils...
the green of Naked Ladies and Poppies in bloom!
