"She beckons, and the woods start~ She nods and all begin~ Surely ~ such a country I was never in." Emily Dickinson Viburnum carlesii before White Birch Spring is spry and gay . . . spreading sheets of sweet petals . . . swathes of green surface. Flowering Quince Magnolias and Weeping Chery Returning birds and songs fill the cool spring air. A magical time of year. Tree Swallow seen from under the Weeping Cherry tree Strife strings along with the season ~ As well as … [Read more...] about Spring Spreads Swaths of Sweetness in Petals and Song
Glimpses of North and Middle Garden Walkabouts
Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' Gray Catbird Eggs - Second Brood Rosa Rugosa Thermopsis villosa and White Birch before Walnut Hill Chipping Sparrow in Nest Chipping Sparrow Eggs Rosa Virginiana Female Indigo Bunting and Nestlings in a Peony! Inidgo Bunting Nestlings - More on these later on. Tree Swallow Nestling Nearly Fledged Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nikko Blue' Looking through Middle Gardens and Tree Swallow Nestbox towards Mount … [Read more...] about Glimpses of North and Middle Garden Walkabouts
In and Out of Fog, Sun and Shrubberies
Inside Top Garden Looking Out - Wisteria, Late Lilac, Viburnum plicatum facade Outside Top Garden looking in - Viburnum plicatum Viburnum plicatum Viburnum floret suspended . . . unintended catch Tree Peony Female Baltimore Oriole and nest Tree Swallow in nestbox Hawthorns Crataegus Looking up towards Top Garden . . . Fading Lilac (brown now soon to be cut) Magnolia ever bloomer Miss Kim Lilac over towards 'Three Graces' Crabapples and … [Read more...] about In and Out of Fog, Sun and Shrubberies
Birds in Review Part XXXVI ‘A Bird Parade’ Spring Returns
It's A Bird . . . No A Bud. . . A Corolla . . . A Blossom . . . A Spring Bird and Bud Parade! Chionodoxa forbesii Nesting Eastern Bluebirds Sialia sialis American Robins Turdus migratorius Chaenomeles 'Flowering Quince' Serenading Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis Alluring Viburnum carlesii A Winter Keeper . . . Spring Creeping Brown Creeper Certhia americana Fairytale Lilac Cluster Emerging Eastern Phoebe Sayornis phoebe Wings Its Way From … [Read more...] about Birds in Review Part XXXVI ‘A Bird Parade’ Spring Returns
