This Memorial Day had a very different feel to it as many of the normal events honoring those veterans who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country were cancelled or modified for social distancing, but hopefully people still remembered the reason for this holiday and the fallen heroes like Private Steve S. Curry, who was killed in action October 26, 1918, north of Verdun in France.
Fallen Soldier
It is too early for blooming roses here, so instead of stopping and smelling the roses on a Sunday afternoon, you will have to smell the apple blossoms and lilacs instead.
Springtime Lilacs
The long holiday weekend has some people venturing out to lakes, cabins and other places even during the pandemic, but many things have needed to changed to allow social distancing and still allow some activities like watching freighters on the lake.
Ship Leaving Port
The birds feathers might have been ruffled a bit this morning when their bird feeder was missing from it normal spot. Although it was near the same area, the feeder was closer to the ground after the bear snapped the pole last night. I made enough noise so the bear left, but I waited until morning before patching the pole back in place and refilled the feeder with seed.
Missing Feeder
I know the orioles around my place are not color blind, but they apparently are prejudice of color as they will take the white strings and rarely take any of the red strings for nest building. Even the blue jay came and took the white strings. It is funny to watch them often grab more than one string before flying off to their nesting site as seen in the video I took a few years ago.
Taking Strings
These kittens are not to sure what to make of the calf, who towered over them, so they scrambled to hide behind the gates.
Kittens and Calf
I spotted a lonely wild geranium open today. I always think of them as a summer flower but since the longest day of the year is about a month away, I guess it is more summer than spring anymore even if the calendar doesn’t say so yet. The wild geranium, also called spotted geranium or wood geranium, is native to eastern North America.
First Wild Geranium
After heavy rain which caused my pond to overflow can sometimes stir the water and make it difficult to see the fish in the water from the sediment, but it didn’t get churned up as much as sometimes Lake Superior can after a storm.
After the Storm
The rain fell steadily since last night and today which caused my pond to overflow, but the water flowing out of my little pond is never as pretty as this flow on a branch of the Amnicon River.
Pretty Water Flow
The returning birds seem to get the most attention right now, but some of the year-round birds add some color too as the cardinal stands out against the green grass as well as a backdrop of white snow in the winter. Their red adds to the rainbow of colors at the feeders and add their songs to the spring chorus.
Cardinal on Green Grass
