Tuesday May 15, 2012

 

 

Flowers, Birds, and Such

 

 

One day – about a week and a half before Mother’s Day – Josiah came here to ask me to mail this flower to his mother (our daughter Diane) for Mother’s Day.

 

 

I love it! I think he made the right move when he went to welding school last year. It weighs ten pounds.

 

 

I have enjoyed seeing the wood thrush on a regular basis.

 

 

I don’t remember that happening other years.

 

 

Northern Mocking Bird

 

 

I enjoyed watching this finch sitting on the very top of the dogwood tree.

 

 

Another house wren is building a nest in one of our birdhouses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

One benefit of this house is there is a back door. Some of you may remember when a woodpecker made this hole last fall when looking for bugs.

 

 

Our robins are sitting on pretty blue eggs.

 

 

 

 

Goldfinch

 

 

The downy woodpeckers like the suet I put in this hanging log.

 

 

 

 

I always love seeing male cardinals.

 

 

Poor bird flew into our window.

 

 

After several minutes it began to revive and soon flew away.

 

 

Cerwin’s mother wanted an Iron Cross Begonia. I could not find one in our local greenhouses, so ordered this one from a greenhouse in New York. It arrived in great shape – via the post office.

She was pleased with her Mother’s Day gift.

 

 

European Starling

 

 

Mamma squirrel

 

 

 

 

Pretty flowers

 

 

 

 

Our landscape continues to be quite green due to many rainy days.