on a walk and around the neighborhood and yard with little boy and camera in tow

Here there be owl pellets!

hyper-focused on peeling bark

With all the wind, this Robin's nest came down... :( The egg shown didn't make it. With Mother Robin not in sight, my husband brought the cold little eggs to me so I filled up some plastic bottles with hot water for them to snuggle with and I misted them with warm water. Keeping them warm is not easy. Especially when they have to be damp too. One is trying so hard to hatch today. I hope it lives. I know its not legal to keep them so I have to find out who can take them if they hatch. I love the color of these eggs.

Noah's dirt mound

This tractor has been here for a week or so...

Noah wants to go outside to visit it everyday

7 things

I've been tagged to list 7 random things about me... but I don't have 7 blogging people to tag back. Let me guess, 7 years bad luck?

1. I don't know how to cut my hair, but I do anyway.

2. I have several gardens and never turn free plants/seeds down.

3. I love the woods, tents, tree houses and forts made of all sorts of things.

4. I RRR, compost and unplug whenever I can but I'm really bad at not loving long showers.

5. My favorite color by itself is blue, like the color blue on that small patch of a female Mallard's wing.

6. Better organization and time management are my New Year's Resolutions..... every year.

7. I want to be a honeybee advocate.

To Aris.... Peekadoo :) Thank you

A heartfelt and genuine painting from Aris.

Aris is such a wonderfully sensitive and genuine person.

This painting by her is such a treasure to me!

Visit her blog to see more of her beautiful paintings and drawings at this link-

peekadoo

another thoughtful present from Aris- A heart-shaped rock for my collection :)

Thank you for being you Aris!

Jack-in-the Pulpit!

1st honeybee I have seen foraging in my yard this Spring...

Can't wait to see my girls hard at work like this...

Spring Around these Parts...

Clearing brush for the bee yard...

in the process I am making a cache

of the strangling twisty vines I cut off

of the trees

Buzzards...

Old twisty Lilac trees

Old Fences...

A splash of flowering tree...

Magnolia

Enormous Tulip Tree

We saved a little frog from certain death (lawnmower)

this is Noah's first encounter with a frog

he knew just what to do

he gave the frog some leaves to make him comfy

he was gentle when handling the frog

the frog liked Noah's boots

and Noah liked the frog

latest project... refinishing old sewing table

sanding this puppy down... refinishing and restoring