Another meditation from Spectrum

Lovely surprises

We found the bloodroot blooming not too many but some, hooray!
And while we were looking at it we had a pileated woodpecker call and fly and then 2 wild turkeys came down the bank and crossed the road, quite the day for us.

And one aptly named

Spring Beauty

Cute little invasive

Okay it is a non-native and poisonous but cute

And a tad closer

Et voila

We found the trout lilies at their peak, Happy Easter to all.

Off to the marsh again

Hope to see the trout lilies in bloom today, last week the skunk cabbage was just finishing blooming. An amazing fact about the trout lily or dogtooth violet is that is grows in colonies that may be as old as 300 years, we are viewing them near where my ancestor, George Ross, set up an iron furnace during the Revolutionary War, they may have been around since then, wow.

Inspired by Baraka Elihu's Star Song

Walking the labryinth...

                                                             stitch by stitch

New birth

Inspired by the birth of Charlotte Elana and divine Bhakti poetry.

Spring craziness

The peach trees and magnolias are all decked out in pink because of the 80 degree weather this weekend and will probably be gone if we get down to the 20's tonight, it must be April.

Spring in PA

Saturday baking

Mixed the pumpkin, banana, candied ginger, pepita muffin batter as the jays scolded, the robins trilled and the crows called.

Spring

The first purple crocuses are blooming under the yew bushes today with a dash of bright yellow dandelion in the grass.

For fun

Ode to Spring

Returned to the lake

34th anniversary

Brunch at Cafe St Armand, a ramble about, dinner at Blue Koi, a lovely day!

The lake

First spring walk, free of ice, wavelets lapping, boats back in water, turtles on their rafts, cormorants fishing, martins swooping overhead, geese calling, osprey nest awaiting.

Root canal

2 and a half hours in the dental chair today, ouch, no April fooling either.

April Fools

She is fooling us with two gentle spring days in a row filled with birdsong and promise.
And onions for luck.