The cactus magician does it again!

Butterfly

Hello, my blogger friends!  At last I am back and able to get out and take photos outside!  

Hope to continue on at least an every other day schedule.

Hip replacement with complications (broken femur)  but am now in PT and walking and photographing with a cane to keep me upright!

Butterfly on clematis  which is being eaten by Japanese Beet

More Snow on February 1 setting records for depth!

Our latest snow fall all day Sunday as seen on Monday morning.

The newest trio

Mushroom month! fungus fling!

I call Gene, "the cactus bloomer," and here is another one of his triumphs

One smart kitty named Ruby Begonia.

Great visit with an old friend, lost now found again.

Skip pointing to Micky McGrath's "icon" of St. Brigid's vision of heaven as a lake of beer, Guiness of course!

Oh the clematis this year!

First the beast now the beauty

Encountered strolling down the road

Latest bloomers -- yellow flags in the pond

Wildflowers: goat's beard

Lillie's emerging as the iris fade

one Siberian Iris

The only Siberian to bloom this year -- does this make sense that they were done in by the cold winter?!

Iris heaven this spring

Ah, the outdoors!

May Apples abound at Spirit Springs Sanctuary

It seems that there are acres of May Apples at Spirit Sprimgs, brought to you by the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy.  On Dutch Settlement Road just over the St. Joseph County line in Cass County.

Two for one

I was trying to capture the shelf fungus and it's little pond and discovered I also got a jack-in-the-pulpit!

Spring time in Michigan