Crab apples, peaches and blue berries, oh my!

Sophia, prettier than any peach blossom!

             The crab apple blooms smell as lovely as they look.  The tree was alive with the buzz of bees.

                              The blue berry bushes look as if there will be a grand crop this year.  I am sure the birds are as excited about it as we are! 

Yesterday......

Sophia in Cyrus's outdoor aviary.  Not to worry, she is not locked in.

                     Cohen upset with me for not letting him play with a bottle of hand sanitizer I had .


                   Running for hugs.  How wonderful life is when you are in the arms of your mother.

We had a very pleasant day today with a nice breeze, warm sunshine and a nearly cloudless blue sky.  I was feeling well enough to have Sophia accompany me to walk around the yard and look for signs of Spring.  We were able to find violets hidden underneath the forsythia and flox beginning to climb the perimeter of earth at  the garden wall.  The crab apple  is laden with unopened  pink buds which will pop open as if by magic and surprise us even though we know it is coming.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

BE HAPPY!

Get Ready for Summer Garden Pictures Coming Your Way Soon!

    My next investment is going to be in a camera with good zoom lens.  Then I'll have to take a photography class to learn to use it.  And then I'll need an eye exam and glasses......Oh well, back to my original subject, the camera...    From what I have been reading film cameras are the best for 'real' photography; clarity of subject and negatives, for safe keeping.  But,  I'll not be able to manipulate and fine tune the photo negatives  as I've no dark room.  Digital gives instant satisfaction as you can view, edit and post as soon as pictures are taken.  I'd never get the film  to be processed either....So...that decision is made.  Thank goodness.  Digital it is.  Now, I'll go job hunting so I can buy the thing....wait!  First that eye exam....
    There are so many opportunities in Margaret's Garden  for exceptional pictures that I really would like to take advantage of it.  This year there are many more birds than last year.  I am sure there will be a lot of pictures I want to capture.  I have already seen more blue birds (Eastern Mountain), Gold finch and Robbins than I have before.  I am very glad of it too, as last year there were so few birds and butterflies that Margaret and I were very  much afraid for them.  Had they died due to illness, poisons, or been driven away in search of better feeding and nesting areas? 
    Last year the person living behind us had sold all of their hard wood and the beautiful trees were cut,  leaving a barren hill from which the wonderful layers of rotted leaves and top soil washed away as soon a the first summer rains came.  It is so sad.  The hill looks just as it must feel.  This surely will hurt the little creatures and drive them to other, safer areas.
    Now we await the butterflies and bees to see how they may have fared the ravages of man and nature. 

    If the sound of frog song, coming from a pond near the house,  is any indication of their number, we shall have an abundance of the croakers.  A virtual plague.     I have seen a few rather robust specimens in the yard already.  Frog, er, toad legs anyone? 

Would you kiss this prince?