Wednesday, March 31, 2010

What’s happening this Spring

We are so happy that winter is finally over and spring has decided to visit!  Our trees are in bloom, we have  had three sets of visitors, so far and many “critters” we haven’t had  in the past three years.   Cyndi and the boys came for their Spring break, Bob and his family stopped by for a short visit (sorry, no pictures) and Pepa came to visit.  046

 

Nathan “teaching” Pepa to play Sorry.

 

 

 

 

009We had a nice visit at Shelly’s and Pepa got to meet Joy and Bella.

039  On the bridge feeding the fish.  Pepa, Glenn, Nathan and Mandy. 

We also have had many “critters” that we have not had before and no, I am not that fast with a camera.  We have been woken up several times lately with the dogs going nuts and encircling the house.  We believe it is coyotes trying to get to the chickens.  We have seen three, so far.  We have also been “skunked” twice by visiting skunks and we have also seen possums and a covey of quail.  We also have the usual raccoons and many, many beautiful birds.  We do have a rather strange female cardinal.  She keeps flying to the Magnolia tree outside our bedroom window and flying into the window.  She will kind of shake her head and then try again.  Strange cardinal.  We have our usual barn swallows nests and they are full of birdlings.  We also have blue buntings that have made nests in our bird houses.  Here are a few spring pictures and one of Mandy climbing our Magnolia tree the day before her surgery

.004   a bush by our garage.       The view from our front porch.

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Mandy in our Magnolia tree

1 comment:

Shelly Turpin said...

sounds wonderful - I love Spring