Our neighbour gave me a wren house for Christmas 2 years ago. I hung it in a cherry tree right by our garage last spring and a wren moved in and we got wren babies.
Last Christmas the neighbours gave me another wren house which I hung on the porch, and this spring there is at least 1 pair of wrens singing up a song around the garage again. These 2 pictures are of one in the house in the cherry tree.
The trees are in full bloom at the moment, so I’ve taken a few pictures of some of them to share here. A photo gallery of some pictures is below (click the first (or any) image to open a larger version in a slide show)
Lilac trees are supposed to be purple, or “lilac”, and indeed we have a number of such plants in our yard. This view is looking north across much of the property toward the house – the trees in the row are Eastern Redbud, a lilac, and a flowering Dogwood tree. The road is visible way in…
We live adjacent to a large field that is planted in either corn or soy beans each summer. I don’t know who owns the ground, nor who does the planting and harvesting, but they sure have access to some very large machinery. At the end of November we got an inch of rain over Thanksgiving,…
Alerted by a post on facebook from Todd Dopkowski that there were northern lights devloping over his place, Lisa and I looked outside around 8 pm, but didn’t see much. Foolishly we didn’t then get all the camera gear setup. By 9pm it was showing, and 30 minutes later it was on. Then the scramble…
I looked out the kitchen window this morning and “spotted” this scene. another “bambi” was off to the left. They left before I could get another photo.
From 1-2 February 2011 we had quite a blizzard – not quite an outright record for snowfall – but the official recording at the Grand Rapids airport a few miles from us is 16 inches – second biggest snowfall in a 24 hour period. We did break the records for 1 and 2 February for…
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