A once-noble steed in a pasture of golden rod.

Beach day

4 wild turkey toms in the field beside us, not a clear photo, but I was just excited to capture them on camera at all.

Griffin and his buddy exploring my wild grass maze.

Barn Swallow mother feeding her babies on my barn.

Killdeer mother and in front of her eggs.  Makes it tough to weed.  

Butterfly or moth?  

Morning Dove fledglings.

Baltimore Oriole outside my window.  This little guy sings all day looking for a mate.  I hope he finds one.

Wildflowers.

Baby robins in one of our trees.

Trillium hunt

Damon has been wanting me to go up to the woods to see the trillium flowers in bloom.  So while dinner was in the oven, Damon, Kira, Hanna, Griffin and I went for a hike.

Looking back at the barnyard.

Hanna arms herself (protection from coyotes).

Coyotes, ummm.  

Griffin is ready!  Bring on the coyotes.

Beautiful boy.

Geese in the neighbour's field.  

Kira has decided that we need to include ferns in our gardens at the house.  I agree.

Trillium, and um, a neighbour that I didn't notice until we got home and I looked at these photos.  Of course Hanna's legs were itchy by then.  Luckily it was mosquito bites though.

Then the girls trudged right through the poison ivy to inspect this pink one.

This huge tree has a hollow right through it.  Very cool.

Heading back home. The neighbour is selling this property.  I am not crazy about the junkyard myself, but even more importantly,  potential buyers aren`t liking it either.  Hoping it will stay on the market until I win the lottery.

The frog pond.

Missed the frog.

Somebody was very unhappy that we were so close to her nest.  As we were walking through the cornfield, she was circling over Griffin trying to measure him up!  Probably the same hawk that killed Miss Patricia.

Blurry deer tracks (that`s the problem with only having the zoom lens on)

A few feet over, a trail of coyote tracks.

Home.

Mourning Dove sitting on her nest.  A quick fact: I say "her" because this photo was taken in late afternoon and males sit from morning until afternoon, and females sit the rest of the day and night.

Air traffic

Great Blue Heron.  He's a frequent visitor.

Canada Geese, I was trying to sneak up on a turkey, but these two snuck up on me.

Tulip in my garden.

Ladybug doing good work on my roses.

Opening of a beaver lodge right next to Matt's shop.

Beautiful, on an old tree stump.