Day 152

Today, I walked through the backyard of our townhouse section.

Starting at the school bus stop, this is the tulip as it starts to die. Placing flowers at a bus stop, might be pretty, but useless if not watered.

Purple Azalea

I'm not sure what kind of flower this is, but it's in a pot with similar flowers, but in other colors.

Yellow Tulips

Purple flowers. Again, I don't know the name of these.

I love this beautiful two toned flower.

Light pink Azaleas

Yellow flowers

These Azaleas had various concentrations of pink. This one had the most.

Pink Dogwood

This camellia bush had large pink flowers on it. It's much taller than our light pink one.

Dying camellia bloom.

Red Azaleas

Squirrel

Day 147

Today, I took photos while Alex and the neighbor girl played and learned about different nature things.

The blooms on the white Dogwood tree finally opened fully.

These white flowers are high up on this tree.

The red Tulip by the bus stop, opened up. I love the contrast of the colors inside.

The girls and I were impressed with this ant carrying a flower bud.

These are two huge black bees flying high up. The ripples are due to this photo being taken through my 40 year old vaulted living room window.

Day 145

Today was rainy, like many spring days here. There are a lot of plants opening and more birds arriving daily.

I'm not sure what type of tree this is. It's not a Japanese Maple. The leaves of this one are bright green and maroon.

The Tulip at the bus stop is opening.

The plants that started at purple shoots, are spiraled with large leaves. There was a seed pod nestled in these wet leaves.

The leaves of the Japanese Maple, have finished opening.

The other day, I noticed how reflective the wet cars were. Today, I remembered to take a photo of the trees reflected on the hood of this black SUV.

These yellow flowers grow along one side of the stair way of the path to our house.

Pippi was meowing at this Common Redpole in the holly tree.

Later in the morning, I followed John to the airport to drop off his rental car. The rain started pouring again. While stopped, I took a photo of a tree through the rain streaked passenger side window.

After dropping off the car and eating breakfast, we headed back home. John drove, while I took photos of trees reflecting in the side mirror and window. In the window, you can see my hand holding the camera

A couple days ago, two mourning doves arrived. They have been trying to get in the house through a large high window that can't open. Silly birds. I love their cooing. I think this is a male and female, as the look slightly different from each other.

I think this is the female. The other one is trying to get inside, while she sits still. I hope she is pregnant. I'm looking forward to baby birds.

Day 144

Today, I decided to look around the neighborhood to find new growth.

There were two types of fallen branches on the path. The branches had buds on them.

This tree has small red flowers on them. I'm curious if they will open and change shape.

Of the three Tulips that had started to grow by the bus stop, this was the only one that survived to form a bloom. This bloom hasn't opened yet.

There are three large Azaleas with small buds on them. I'm keeping watch of them for more growth, as these particular bushes in this area, are very hardy.

I like how the sun glows through these particular leaves.

When Alex came home, I noticed she had these buttercups in her pocket, from school.

Later in the evening, there was a large bug thumping on the window. I managed to get a clear photo of it, after many tries. This is apparently some sort of beetle