Scilla

 

springs little blue sprite!

 



Red Breasted Nuthatch

Song Sparrow

 

 

A spring melody

in the air

oh so sweet!

 

 



Spring Birds

 

Spring brings birds

to our yard

These are some of the usual suspects

Tree Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Dark Eyed Junco

 

 



Maple Syrup

 

A great Canadian tradition

the boiling of Maple tree sap
in the spring to make
Maple syrup!
Its not a pancake without.
This is my neighbors sugar shack,
he tapped his trees and ours
boiled and we have the liquid gold!

The fuel to boil.

The sap to boil and boil!
 



Cathartes aura

 

 

Harbinger of spring

the soaring Turkey Vulture

aloft on the winds!

 

 

1st bloom of 2015

 

 

The 1st bloom

in Gardner's  garden for 2015

the Crocus always brings a smile

 



White Tails

 

 

White Tailed Deer

 

 



Black-capped Chickadee

 

Poecile atricapilla

 

 

 



Golden-crowned Kinglet

 

Regulus satrapa



April Morning Atmosphere

 

 5 AM

Everything is still

fog rises off the snow that remains

April warmth

quiet comfort so serene

a view down the street

gives me  silent comfort

I begin to dream

until awakened by a call

Spring!

 

~JE Ted Gardner