Sunny, smiling daffodils would be nice to see and they are blooming in some states already, if they poked their heads up around here, they would find themselves under three feet of snow.
Smiling Daffodils
The road ditches are presenting a ray of colors from orange, purple, white, and yellow. And here the yellow and black of the native Black-eyed Susans are sharing the ditch with the purple Bee Balm. The Black-eyed Susans were attracting green inch worms and the Bee Balm was enticing bees and butterflies.
Colorful Ditch
Boy did my mini-vacation fly by in a blink of an eye! And I didn’t even take a picture those three lost days of February.
There is a hint of sun but it hasn’t been able to break through the clouds yet and if it does, the ground would still be white so I need some purple and green for today’s picture and the field of lupines fit the bill.
Field of Lupines
Even though it was cloudy yesterday, the temperature warmed up enough that the chipmunks came out of hibernation which made my cat very happy. It is the only time he has any patience. He can sit at the chipmunk hole for hours waiting for the critter to poke his head back up which he had to do yesterday since I scared the chipmunk down his hole.
I wouldn’t mind being a chipmunk who sleeps most the winter and just wakes up to eat and play on the warm days, but a cat staring down the hole might be a good reason not to be chipmunk.
Yesterday and today’s chipmunk hunt didn’t have the nice yellow flowers though and will be a while before they bloom again.
Chipmunk Hunt