These small pale blue violets don’t stand out and get noticed as much as the larger and darker violets, but they are pretty “weeds” on my lawn. I end up having patches on my lawn were I skip mowing to leave some the flowers while blossoming.
Pale Little Violets
On this day, mothers received a variety of gifts or gestures from their children to celebrate Mother’s Day. They may have received flowers (including dandelions) or just a hug. Even this calf gives her mother a snuggle as the cow gives her baby a bath.
Mother’s Day Snuggle
I took a walk around the field and woods this evening and spotted lots of birds enjoying the nice sunny day. Some bluebirds were busy sitting on their eggs, a yellow warbler looking for a place to build a nest, chickadees were in the apple blossoms as well as a hummingbird, two male orioles were chasing each other, tree swallows scolded me, the grosbeaks were eating sunflower seeds and the tiny wrens were singing up a storm. As since I was busy looking up, I almost missed a little fuzzy thing scooting across the pond. A baby wood duck headed for the grass where its mother was already hiding. I didn’t see the other babies tonight but I had spotted about seven of them the other day.
Wood Duck Hiding
Walking along my path to the pond, I noticed today that the deer ate my last great white trillium as well as all of my hostas and my trout lilies. They seem to leave blue flowers alone more than the other colored flowers.
Pretty Blue Flowers
This horse was enjoying the new grass, even if was raining a bit yesterday, but today it would have enjoyed some nice sunshine instead.
Springtime Pasture
The deer wandering around my yard last evening was probably looking for more great white trilliums to eat but they will be out of luck since this is only one left in my woods.
The Surviving Trillium
Several hundred miles farther south, the trees are ahead in leafing out and flower crabs and lilacs are blooming. Other trees are blooming, like these surrounding an old barn in southwest Wisconsin.
Barn by Blossoms
Although the white from the Bloodroots are gone, the wildflowers right now are mostly white with Trilliums, Wood Anemones, Pussytoes and White Trout Lily scattered around the ground. But there are some colorful blues left in the woods from the Virginia Bluebells. But this are coming to an end as they start out pink and turn to blue and there are few pink left.
Blue from Virginia Bluebells
Having some sunny days after all the cloudy rainy days, allow chances to see sunrises and sunsets again.
Early May Sunset
After I released my frog back into the wilds after spending several months during the winter inside my house, I figured I wouldn’t see him anymore. But I discovered he has been hanging around his old home that I left on the porch but he probably was upset with me since I hadn’t kept his home moist. And I let his ‘pond’ dry out so once I filled his pie pan with water, he was in it that night and the next night too.
Pie Pan Pond
