After a very foggy start, the sun was out for a Sunday afternoon walk to smell the apple blossoms and to watch and listen to birds in the trees.
Sunday Stroll
Picture of the Day for May 15, 2021
A brief thunderstorm rolled in this evening and although it didn’t last long, it produced enough lightning to scare my cat into hiding.
Storm Rolling In
Picture of the Day for May 14, 2021
This Friday afternoon had some people hurry to cabins for a weekend of fishing, but farmers were in the fields rushing to get the crops planted.
Time for Planting
Picture of the Day for May 13, 2021
A cluster of Jack-in-the-pulpits catch some early evening spring sunshine. They are a native wildflower and the actual true flower are tiny dots that line the spadix (the Jack) which are wrapped by the spathe (the pulpit). The smaller plants are generally male and as the plant ages and grows larger, more female flowers are produced.
Some Jacks in Sunshine
Picture of the Day for May 12, 2021
I spotted a brown thrasher briefly at my bird feeder today but I heard it singing a lot longer. The thrasher’s voice carried from its high perch in the top of the tree and the male brown thrasher has a very large song repertoire, with over 1,100 documented and estimated to be over 3,000. They also imitate other birds songs, especially during the breeding season.
Singing Brown Thrasher
Picture of the Day for May 11, 2021
Although it seemed like it took forever for something to bloom this spring, as soon as I mowed the lawn, the dandelions popped overnight to carpet the ground in yellow.
Dandelion Yellow Carpet
Picture of the Day for May 10, 2021
There are trilliums blooming in the woods at the farm, but the great white trilliums were beheaded again by the deer along my path to the pond. The trilliums have been eaten too many years in a row so only a few even sprouted but the critters managed to nibble on them leaving stems only.
Missing Great White Trilliums
Picture of the Day for May 9, 2021
Cards, dinner and flowers are a few things children gave to their mother on this Mother’s Day. This calf has a different method of expressing its love.
Calf Loving Mom
Picture of the Day for May 8, 2021
As the farmers begin the spring field work for planting, it almost looks like fall with the maples showing some red color as the buds unfurl. The leaves will turn green when they start to produce the green chlorophyll pigment, which can be delayed by cloudy or cold days. So with the temperatures hovering near freezing at night for the past several weeks is giving us a more autumn looking spring.
Springtime Red
Picture of the Day for May 7, 2021
One male Baltimore Oriole has arrived from the south as the trees are starting to leaf out.
Returning Oriole
