This gray and chilly day doesn’t feel much like spring, but there is still new growth emerging as the old season looks on.
Old Pine Cone
Picture of the Day for April 14, 2021
The coating of snow covered the poor brave blossoms and the flowers probably wished they waited a few more weeks before opening up.
Chilly Blossoms
Picture of the Day for April 13, 2021
Instead of the “picture of the day”, today’s photo is the “picture of the night” as I had a visitor in my backyard during overnight. It didn’t take long for the bear to break the bird feeder pole down but took him about 20 minutes to eat the bird seed from the broken feeder. Then he wandered around the yard for a while and eventually came up to the porch to check out the bird feeder there too before disappearing back into the night.
Night Time Furry Visitor
Picture of the Day for April 12, 2021
On another cold and rainy day, this cat had the right ideal on how to spend the day.
Napping Cat
Picture of the Day for April 11, 2021
The hooded merganser on my pond this spring seem to chase each other around the pond a lot, but the other day it was two male mallards doing some fighting.
Just Before the Fight
Picture of the Day for April 10, 2021
Another wildflower, the wood violet, has emerged as small patches of its color add additional hints of the arrival of spring.
More Wildflowers Found
Picture of the Day for April 9, 2021
Another rainy day has the lawn feeling rather squishy and my pond overflowing, but at least all the precipitation has been rain instead of snow, otherwise a deep coating of white would be covering the new emerging white blossoms of the bloodroots.
White of the Bloodroots
Picture of the Day for April 8, 2021
April showers are bringing April flowers. In just a couple of rainy days, both the bloodroots and spring beauties have opened a few blossoms. The spring beauties are tiny but bring a big sign of spring.
Spring Beauties Signal Spring
Picture of the Day for April 7, 2021
As the thunderstorms rolled in yesterday, this was one of the last pieces of blue sky before the clouds blanketed the sky and created a light show from the all the lightning.
Last Patch of Blue
Picture of the Day for April 6, 2021
The snow glories popping up on my lawn might not be covered in snow like some years, but they sure got wet this evening and some of them might even have been burnt from the frequent lightning strikes.
Snow Glories Not in Snow
