Goldstar! Long before... Today a little male hummingbird showed up. Female Baltimore Oriole Beaver (Castor canadensis), lost in a small pond..… A beaver in unfamiliar water... Chipmunk Downy Violet Birdfoot Violet Wood Violet Wild Phlox Trillium Wild Geranium Spring at the creek. Hook-leaf buttercup Kidney-leaf Buttercup Dog violet Kidney-leaf Buttercups. Jack-in-the-Pulpit My team is training for the circus. Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) Nature's weaving. Natural garden Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) A giant branch is still alive on this black spruce Using a branch for support. Sign of our times... Green Darner, newly emerged. Nature's weaving. Rough terrain bike trail Tall! A time for pansies III The time for pansies. Space travel Visitor at our backdoor. Visitor at our backdoor. On a rainy Mother's Day Grape jelly, the best Oriole food. My Mother's Day gift Atmospheric Spring Sitting on the hummingbird feeder Spring Beauty American Beech, the largest I have ever seen.