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the quick and the dead
Leaves have not yet greened the big trees, but some small grasses are already in flower. They are not wasting any time.
Meanwhile, I have been finding skeletons of last year's leaves. I found a perfect one and exclaimed over it, then got distracted by something else and didn't take it with me. Later I remembered and went to look for it and found a different, less perfect one.
It looks like a net. By itself it may catch a number of things; strengthened with a spell, more.
Meanwhile, I have been finding skeletons of last year's leaves. I found a perfect one and exclaimed over it, then got distracted by something else and didn't take it with me. Later I remembered and went to look for it and found a different, less perfect one.
It looks like a net. By itself it may catch a number of things; strengthened with a spell, more.
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Oak tree in our backyard.
Dogwood tree blossoming - they blossom around Easter. Also, they are RAMPANT around Atlanta, and if you go early enough in the year, you might catch a day when it's snowing and the Dogwoods are blooming.
That's looking back towards the Stones River. It's just beyond that far line of trees.
Two things here, the kids put grass all over the floor of the upper level of the fort. It looks like grass carpenting. The second thing is that wood is turning green all over the place. I guess it's moss, but it kind of looks like spring's trick of bringing everything to life is working too well, and it's getting even the wood.
Benjamin dug that hole and chose that expression to showcase it.
We call this the "regular tree." I don't know what it is.
Mom's birdfeeder is full of water because it rained. Those are planted flowers, not natural. I think those are azaleas or something.
These are pretty and there's whole beds of them. No idea what they are. They're like a vine or something.
Yeah. Front yard. The big one is the non-flowering flowering pear tree, a "dogwood" (according to Clara, but I don't think so), and a little fur.
beautiful!
The little purple flowers are myrtle or periwinkle--they are blooming here too! But not dogwoods yet. How pretty that dogwood flower is--and that's a great image, the snow with the dogwoods--that's a trope in Japanese poetry, so-called "elegant confusion" ("is that snow, or is it scattering blossoms that I see?")--how beautiful that would be in real life!
So you have a river in your backyard! Lucky! (But I am lucky too since we have a swamp behind our house.) And that's quite a hole Benjamin dug--I mean, it's about as tall as he is. He looks very cute in that first photo--reminds me of my one of my nephews, my sister's son.
And yes, those are azaleas. Do hummingbirds come to them?
But that dogwood flower--that's the one I love best.
Re: beautiful!
To get to the river, we'd have to climb over a privacy fence and then walk through someone else's yard, so we don't go that way. It's pretty close, yeah. That field is the flood plane for it.
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thank you for this lovely post.
hugs, dear Asakiyume
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Also, check out the bones (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wakanomori/3459522721/) that
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