This morning a chipmunk was on my porch but yesterday afternoon, two little bunnies were hopping around the screen porch, teasing my cats. It was fun watching them race around the yard and they have grown since when I nearly stepped on one of them. And so when they grow up more, they will be after my garden too besides the chipmunks but since I don’t have it planted yet, they have to settle for clovers instead.
Bunny in Clover
There was a lot of white on my lawn yesterday, but since it was 80 degrees yesterday, it wasn’t snow. Instead the dandelions were no longer yellow but now white with their seed dispersal sphere ready to release seeds into the wind. One seed is ready to take flight once the breeze catches it parachute to send it sailing in the air.
3-2-1 Lift Off
The nice weather on Sunday was enjoyed by critters as well as people. This Hereford mommy was checking her baby in the late afternoon sunshine.
Mommy and Baby
On this very warm Sunday day, many people were out enjoying time on the lakes.
Lake Sunset
Normally the sound of chattering makes it easy to locate a squirrel, but it wasn’t the chatter which drew my attention to this squirrel and I would have missed him if it wasn’t for the noise of a nut being eaten.
Busy Eating a Nut
The hummingbirds and bees have been enjoying the blossoms during these sunny days and near the honeysuckle, the buzzing of wings can be heard as nectar is being collected. There are approximately 180 species of honeysuckle, but there are some non-native ones in North American which have been very invasive and are a noxious weed after being introduced as an ornamental plant, some as early as 1752.
Pretty but Invasive
Farming with horses is a look back at how my grandparents farmed until being replaced by tractors and mother machinery, but horses are still used for plowing, planting and harvesting crops throughout the world.
Plowing with Real Horse Power
Green flowers often get overlooked since they don’t stand out like the other colors. But at least “Jack” had a hood over his head to protect from the patchy frost overnight. New seedlings need three or more years of growth before they become large enough to flower. The Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers are unisexual and normally the larger plants are female.
Jack Hiding Under the Hood
While one generally thinks of colored leaves in the autumn, springtime also displays some red maple leaves when they first emerge before turning to summer green color.
Springtime Maple Leaves
It was nice not waking up to a white lawn today, after the snow on Saturday morning and the heavy frost Sunday morning, but some white is missing as the deer have eaten all of my Great White Trilliums. The flowers and leaves are gone with only a stem remaining. Apparently the Nodding Trillium leaves don’t taste as good as the deer eat them or there is no white blossom drawing attention to them as the blossom of the Nodding Trillium hangs underneath the leaves and you don’t notice the flowers.
Elusive Blossom
