Looking Down

I had difficulty with the Sunday posting. Blogger just did not want to make the photo-text as large as I wanted. One can click on the text or coloured background to get a slightly larger version on its own.

Meanwhile, when I wasn't looking up for birds, I was looking down for flower, butterflies, and bugs. Below was one of my rewards.



And a little closer. . .

Sunday, May 7, 2006

(The Blog and I had slightly different ideas on how big the text was supposed to be. It is a bit larger if you click on the text or coloured background.)

Friday Photos

Yesterday was a good day for photos but I don't know what to post. Perhaps the sunrise?



Or maybe the tiny, tiny spider that I found on a dandelion stem is what I should show?



Then again, perhaps I could put up the Northern Cardinal that posed for me.



Maybe the cup fungus that I found along a path might interest someone else.



Sorry, I just cannot decide what to put up.

First Rose-breasted Grosebeak of the Season

Spring Wild Flowers

I told my blog friend at Rurality that I would post a photo of our Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia cyparissias). It is a plant that grows wild on our property and in the ditches by the road that goes by our house.



On our wild flower walk on Monday evening one of the participants commented that sometimes she saw only one Red Trillium in the spring but that she had seen four already on our walk. That started a bit of a count and by the end of the walk, we had see forty-four Red Trilliums (Trillium erectum).



Following are two more species that we saw last Monday evening:


Large-flowering Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)



Long-spurred Violet (Viola rostrata)