Wordless Wednesday

Star of the Yard

The star of the yard last week and this week are the two Elderberry bushes we have.  Both volunteers of  course, but they have bloomed wonderfully this year.

Mute Monday

This Week

Neat bird nest Richard told me about over in the mae yard...He said a dove had been using it

snail on a leaf over by the garden

We kept Jack and Emily today just because we wanted to.  They were obsessed with this basket of seashells...and there on the table is a book on seashells I found...They enjoyed that too. They were listening to the ocean in this larger shell!

Stinkhorn

I saw this stinkhorn in the mae yard this morning....odd thing to see and was surprised to see it..I took this mid-morning..

Later this afternoon here was another one coming up!

 Later this afternoon it was already wilting

Had a definite odor to them, so they earned their name!

Mute Monday

The Weekend

Sadly, I only took a couple pictures this weekend...Richard cooked four slabs of ribs ...we had some but the real reason he cooked some was to take some to a funeral dinner....

 bloom on a Rough-Leafed  Dogwood I believe it's called.  these sprouted up several years ago between us and the neighbor....

Our Town

Snapper

We saw a snapping turtle passing through our yard the other day...It was kind of neat to see. We figured it was going from one creek or pond to another creek or pond....

I think it was wondering why I was taking it's picture!

Catching Up

These pictures are from earlier in the Spring.  We had lots of Orioles in May...even some Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. I didn't get any really good pictures.....it was really neat and unusual to have several Orioles at one time, or even a few would be awesome. anyway, they liked the hummingbird feeder and I put out grape jelly on little orange plates and they really liked that. Other people around here also had lots of these birds....was pretty neat!

Wild Sweet William on the river bank

at a local gas station..."truck" made out of a van....and you can't tell it here, but the back window was plywood with a hole cut it it covered in plastic....for sure a one-or-a-kind vehicle!