This was neat to see these two different spider species sitting in our garden tub. The cellar spider (Pholcus Pholangiodes) was no surprise. It's all I can do to keep them out. But the fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus)
I didn't much like to think about where it had been before it got into our tub. Cree-py! At this point, though, we've seen so many different creatures in our tub. Welcome to the woods. Haha!
It's been sooooo nice to see an abundance of deer again in our yard and across the road, since Atlas has been gone. Atlas is a good dog, but he was not the right kind of dog for our liking. I love, love, love seeing wildlife, and that dog kept it all away.
This was so neat! William described what I thought might be a snowberry clearwing that you might remember my identifying in the past. Trusten took me out to try to find one, though, and I saw this! I knew it was some sort of moth. It's abdomen reminded me of a yellow hornet. Well lo and behold, it's commonly called a hornet moth (Sesia apiformis). These two pictures are the best I could get of the fast-flying creature.
Chubby ol' groundhog! (Marmota monax) I LOVE these pics I got!
I wanted so much to get a decent turkey(s) picture this year. It was my top priority nature photograph. Well, technically I did get a "decent" one. This is it. I wish it was better. It was very far away, and I zoomed to the max. I do not know whether it is female or juvenile. I don't yet know how to properly identify turkeys, unless it's an adult male.
I just thought this scene in our yard was absolutely gorgeous. There was that beautiful stormy-blue sky background, all that greenery, and the magnificently beautiful purple irises (Iris sp.).
This. Color. I'm in awe.
Mesmerizing.
Remember these mushrooms when not dried out, and they were covered with silken web?
A tumor or a mutated leaf?
A pair of mullein! (Verbascum blattaria)
Stars-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum)
I always see at least one four-leafed clover. These were my first of the year, a pair right next to each other.
I didn't buy any plants for my pots this year. I planted seeds, and Trust and Liv helped me. I showed them how to add different collections of soil and such that I had in different containers.
My hens-and-chicks that my friend Shana gave to me three years (or four?) had once again outgrown their pot. I moved them to my widest container. I sacrificed three to five of them, and I had to separate others and spread them out. They're all doing very well again now. Such hearty plants! They're perfect for me.
Dianthus? I'd have to look this up, but I think that's the name of these flowers. Anyway, these are offspring of the plant I had last year. They lived all through winter and then started blooming this spring. I'm impressed. We had a mild winter, though.
I decided it was time for us to paint rocks again. I got down my collection from a bag that was collecting dust on top of the refrigerator. I cleaned the rocks and let them dry. Then we waited a few days.
This is my male mallard duck. I have no idea why I used orange for the bill and not yellow. I will add a white ring around the neck when I get white paint.
These were Elizabeth's and maybe Olivia's, too???
Bianca spent the night with the kids, and these two are hers.
This is William's puffin, which will look really great once we get white paint! He really needed the white paint on there at the beginning. What a shame we were out of it.
Nathan's birthday ice cream cake.
Beef pepperoni (I slice summer sausage) and mushrooms
SO good! Taziki's Greek restaurant recipe for their chicken lemon soup. I ran low on liquid.
One Saturday we ate at a friend's restaurant and then went driving down Butler Hollow in Seligman. I wanted to go down there.
Nathan was engaged, talking to his friend Dave the electrician.
How I wished I'd taken my camera! Ugh! But I didn't, so these blurry pictures are what I got. This is how much of the road that got washed away. Then the picture below shows what is to the right of this. You can see people on four-wheelers driving down there. We were in Nathan's truck and took a muddy route on the other side of the road and came out on the other section of the road. This is more damage from the December flood that washed out a great deal of our yard and the bridge on the highway (that they're just now fixing, as of May 28).
When Bianca spent the night, I took them all to the park before taking Bianca back home. They were thrilled. Poor Elizabeth did not want to leave. She loves sliding. She enjoyed swinging, too.
William got buried in the sand!
Girls playing with puzzles in optometrist's waiting room.
Wow!!!!! I'm actually CAUGHT UP! FINALLY! Ok, so in a few days I will post May's post and then just review what we did for school and what summer plans and fall plans are.
Until next time...
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