The day started cloudy with the rain skirting by tot he south and the sun appeared in the late afternoon. Although a few rain clouds moved back in by evening as a few sprinkles landed on me as I was trying to capture the sunset.
Sprinkling Sunset
Picture of the Day for April 24, 2019
The trees are slowing budding out but right now it is hard to know if it is spring or fall at a quick glance until the new leaves start to emerge and the grass starts to green up again.
Spring Slow Start
Picture of the Day for April 23, 2019
More spring birds have returned including tree swallows and this Savannah Sparrow which seemed to be enjoying the sunshine after the rainy days. A female Savannah Sparrow must gather ten times her weight in food, like insects and spiders, to feed herself and her young during the eight days they are in the nest.
Savannah Sparrow
Picture of the Day for April 22, 2019
This turtle looks like heavy machinery powering through whatever it wants, but it does move slowly so I doubt a turtle will ever replace the Easter Bunny to quickly hide enough eggs.
Slow Moving Turtle
Picture of the Day for April 21, 2019
The Easter Bunny might not be able to hide its eggs in the snow, but even though Easter is later this year, he still won’t be able to snack on clovers after his work is done since the snow just melted.
Easter Bunny
Picture of the Day for April 20, 2019
The sunshine and temperatures reaching into the seventies finally made it feel like spring. And even though I still have a small pile of snow refusing to melt, I had a mosquito trying to land on my arm today so that makes it officially spring. Plus a walk through the wood revealed two little Hepaticas just opening up so the first wildflowers confirmed spring too.
Finally Spring
Picture of the Day for April 19, 2019
The birds were singing in today’s sunshine as few butterflies floated by and this evening the pond is full of song from the spring peepers giving hope that maybe spring is finally here. And the road ditches looked a little furry too with the pussy willows blooming and their resemblance to tiny cat paws is a reminder to the new batches of kittens born this spring too.
Furry Pussy Willows
Picture of the Day for April 18, 2019
April showers are supposed to bring May flowers so with all the rain making the ground rather soggy, there should be a abundance of blossoms (if the flowers weren’t washed away yesterday).
Maybe Flowers Soon
Picture of the Day for April 17, 2019
The ground is saturated from the snow melt this week so today’s very heavy rains created sheets of water covering most of my lawn. And my poor fish probably where washed out of my pond and the ducks didn’t seem so happy either in the rain.
Waterlogged
Picture of the Day for April 16, 2019
The sunny and warm day helped to melt most of the recent snow and the water surrounded the old willow tree again but not quite as bad as the first main snow melt.
Old Willow Tree
