The First Blooms

April Showers

Drama in the sky

Rainy Reflection

Magnolia  post-rain

Different View 2

Up above:

I just love the colour of the sky:)

A Different View

From ground level:

A Cold Spring

Hydrangea and Magnolia

The first plant we got this year for planting in the garden:

I love the green and the pink together

It's a Hydrangea.

Magnolia in the sunset

What's in a name?

that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;

(W. Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet)

Birds and More Birds - continued

A walk on the trail provided us with quite a photo-op:)
The Canada Geese put on quite a show for us . A cute dog sat nearby, not quite understanding what was so exciting about the geese.
The ducks are always wonderful to see. And, last: some interesting plant matter.
After a long, cold winter - it's beautiful:)

Birds and More Birds

A sparrow waiting to join his friends

A sparrow hanging onto the bricks

A pretty little bird -
apparently, a female House Sparrow

A woodpecker, well camouflaged,  on the black walnut tree

I Got Permission

... to take the little bird's picture.

Remember this post?

Well, today as I was loading my dishes, I saw movement from the corner of my eye. My house has an open concept, I can see all the way down to the solarium. A little bird was going up and down in front of the window there, landing safely each time on one of the junipers.

I grabbed my trusted camera, removed the lens cover to be safe and started taking pictures through the window.  I knew they would not be great but I really had to get her picture and she sat there for me calmly for a while.

Getting Ready For Spring

Our little dog got his haircut today:

As you can see, it was quite an ordeal...

Thinking

Why am I blogging?

It's really neat to have this little space where I can think "out loud", post my photos, ramble, change topics at will...
I am also flattered when someone in India drops in to read one of my posts or when another person from Belarus looks at my pictures.

I look back at my older posts: many are of clouds, sunsets, birds, etc. 

Where else could I possibly share those? 

My family stopped looking after the third or fourth cloud :).

No pictures today, I was too busy with house cleaning:)

A Gift

for me AND for the 

Cancer Society

A Fluffy- Cloud-kind-of-day

I love those clean-looking, fluffy, duvet-like clouds. I just had to take some pictures: