March 13th, 2024

We celebrated spring here this weekend!  Yeah, I know it's a little early according to the calendar and some places are still battling winter, but here's it's absolutely gorgeous.  Cool mornings and evenings and lovely warm days of blue skies, sunshine and Flowers!

Sunday Tim and I went North to Felt's Preserve. Well we actually just went for a drive - a no place in particular, absolutely no destination in mind, we went for a wander and somehow ended up at Felt's.  We haven't visited it in a very long time and honestly I wasn't prepared for a real hike.  I was wearing white pants (not good in a forest unless you want them to be dirty) and sandals (terrible hiking footwear).  So we vowed to just walk a little bit and only on well tended, clean trails.  Luckily I pretty much always have my camera on hand.

And of course we ended up walking farther than we intended, got dirtier than expected and stayed longer than we probably should have.  And I have zero regrets.

Here is some of what we saw:

This is going to be like a first reader, mostly photos with very few words.  They do say that a picture is worth a thousand words so if that's true you can count the imaginary words that might have accompanied each photo.

There wasn't a huge variety of birds but I got a variety of photos of the few birds that we saw.  (does that make any sense?)

​Blue Jays:

Cardinals:

Indigo Bunting:

Mourning Doves:

So that was it for birds.  There were loads of birds, but of a limited variety.  And that's perfectly fine!  There was more variety in the flowers and other botanicals:

Lizards too. This is three different lizards and most of them were hanging around a sign about bees which was kind of funny.  False advertising?

The insect variety was impressive !  And these are just the ones I actually managed to get photos of!  There were loads more:

We were tickled to find some turtles basking in the sun by the pond and a few scampering squirrels that held still long enough to get a shot:

So I guess that's it, at least for now.  We will continue to enjoy our beautiful springy weather, which I confess is a tiny bit sneezy and a whole lot pollen-ish.  Whatever you have going on, weather-wise, enjoy!  This too shall pass.

​Hugs all 'round