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You can hear other things, too, if you listen the right way. I'd just gotten back to the garden and was starting to take a peek around when I heard that certain leaf rustling under the apple tree...and I saw an Eastern box turtle slowly making his way along.
This is "Crackey", the fellow with the repaired shell I met just a year ago this week. Nice to see him back for another season! (A little review from 2005 lessons: you can tell he's a dude because of the red eyes.)
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The two large pink columbine plants in the back garden are coming into their own. Here's one of them against a field of white strawberry blossoms.
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Last year I was so busy at this point, laying out bed, identifying plants, bringing in others. It's really nice to have those in place already this year, and I find I'm having a little more time to look around. Just this week, I spotted this flowering crabapple (I think that's what it is, and thanks to our female oriole for helping point it out!), down at the southern end of the garden area...just over the old fenceline.
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Canadian author Margaret Atwood once wrote that "Context is everything." (If you haven't read The Handmaid's Tale recently, now is a great time to order a copy at the library!) With that in mind, I present this long shot of the back garden, from the perspective of that newly-discovered fruit tree.
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I heard on NPR yesterday that this weekend is the peak time for songbird migration, and so therefore, a possible treasure trove time for birdwatchers all along the northeastern coast.
This yellow bird was flying around, singing a short song...not dissimilar to cardinals or orioles, but it didn't seem to be either. It could be a warbler, but I'm more inclined to think it may be either an orchard oriole or maybe an evening grosbeak.
I didn't have my binoculars, and it didn't stay long enough for a photo better than this.
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A portrait shot
of the Forget-Me-Not.
So pretty a hue,
this lightest blue.
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At the back of the house, the violets are blooming quite merrily...
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...and the Lily of the Valley there have begun opening into their lovely bell form. Their scent will come a little later on.
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There's another, larger patch of that mysterious little blue flower blooming out in front of the house now. I'm glad to feature this patch, as it grows on its own, so it's easier to get a gander at its own foliage, for hopeful future identification.
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That's for another time, though: Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work I go!!
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