hello April ...

walks with Archer x

Robin serenades

morning meditation in the garden

basking in the sunshine

visits to the nursery for ranunculus and smiling every time I see them

remembering how the garden bunnies love them

and nibble off the flowers leaving nothing but stems

fruit and nut mix for the squirrels

sparrow love

x

bringing bird seed with me

and sprinkling some in my hand

walking through the trails

and waiting... it doesn't take long...

black capped chickadees begin to  land on my outstretched hand

... some take a seed and fly away... others sit and eat from my hand

{magic}

treats left by walkers before me

today has seen a mixture of rain and snow

and heavy, heavy winds

finding bits of suet amongst the leaves

"Hark, I hear a robin calling!
List, the wind is from the south!
And the orchard-bloom is falling
Sweet as kisses on the mouth.

In the dreamy vale of beeches
Fair and faint is woven mist,
And the river's orient reaches
Are the palest amethyst.

Every limpid brook is singing
Of the lure of April days;
Every piney glen is ringing
With the maddest roundelays.

Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
Giving to the golden weather
Greeting on the sun-warm hills."
-  Lucy Maud Montgomery, Spring Song