Morning Visitor!

Fungus

What's that noise?

I was sitting quietly drinking a cup of coffee this morning when I heard it. An unfamiliar sound. It kept getting louder and louder and almost sounded like I was at a football game full of cheering fans. Then it hit me! The first sound I heard was rain! Not just humidity in the air but real soaking rain. I realized it wasn't really raining that hard to make such a loud noise. I listened a few more minutes and discovered what it was.
The grass,
the trees,
the flowers,
and even the birds were cheering!

We are finally getting a whole day of rain!

Thief! (edit) Thievery and Destruction!

I've been having trouble with the bird feeder on
my second story deck. It keeps getting moved and was close to going over the edge a couple times in the last 2 weeks. I blamed it on the starlings that had begun coming to the feeder, so I scared them away when I caught them there.

Imagine my surprise when I got up early one morning and found 2 raccoons sitting on the rail eating from the feeder!

I called a friend and borrowed a trap. It took a couple nights but Monday morning I had my thief! It is quite small so I assume it's just a baby. It was very calm and usually they go crazy. I got it in the car before the girls came for the day and we went for a ride

I dropped it off in a wooded area by a creek a few miles away. Apparently they climbed up the post where the trumpet vine is. I don't want it to be lonely so now I just need to catch it's brother or sister.

The girls loved seeing it and were telling it goodbye! Click the picture and check out Jerzie's 'Punky Brewster' outfit! You do remember her don't you? Jerzie was in her footed pj's, lady bug rain boots, a pink jacket, her knitted blue and orange Mets hat and one light blue and one pink mitten! That's what vacation is all about, right?

EDIT!
And now for the destruction. I did catch another of the culprits but this one was a little feisty! See all the 'stuff' in the cage? That was a sheet I wrapped the cage in when I put it in the car. I guess I left it too close to the cage. I can't believe it pulled a sheet in the cage thru those little holes and shredded it during the night. What a mess!

The wind must have blown the corner of my rug into reach so it even shredded a corner of the rug. I took it to find it's sibling and I must admit it was calm by then. I think I'll keep the trap set for a couple more nights in case their parents come looking for them!

Visitors

Downy Woodpecker

Dove Cardinal, chickadee, and sparrow.

House WrenTufted Titmice

My bird pictures always come out dark because the feeders are under a roof. These are the best ones I have gotten.

Sunny and Cold

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There is Beauty

We're having a cold but sunny day today that makes you think of spring. I've just been enjoying the day and not thinking about the weather report. We had a huge thunder storm on Sunday night but I still can't see any grass!I must admit that the snow, frost and ice can be beautiful and I have taken these pictures to prove it.
This window is hanging on my deck.

Icy holly.

A glass door also hanging on the deck.

Hopefully these will be the last of my snow pictures for this year. I heard on the radio we have had 147 inches of snow so far this year!

Fishing!

Jerzie didn't have school on Monday so we went to the Audubon Center. While the girls were fishing I was watching out the window.They have several feeders and there were birds everywhere!
A got a few decent shots from my comfortable seat on a couch.

Do you see anything in the lower right hand corner?

A pair of deer snacking on some trees!

I sure wish I had a view like that out my window!

A Bird?

That doesn't look like a bird to me!

If you can't fly, how did you get on the second story deck?

How did I get up here?

There is a nice view and lots of sunflower seeds.

The big question is, how do I get down?!!