Memorial Day Walk

Memorial Day, 2010
Scott and I took a walk down the Deschutes River.   It was a nice 4 mile hike filled with bugs, lizards, flowers, and fisherman.  We had a wonderful time.

Nestled

These baby birds hatched less than 1 day ago.  There is still one egg to go.  A robin nests near the door at work almost every year.  I can't wait to see them all up and ready to fly in the weeks to come.

Howdy Partner

Daisy, Daisy

Looking Towards Friday

Signs, signs everywhere there's signs

 

Summer is coming, it's just taking her own sweet time.

Peanuts...Get Your Peanuts

It's my birthday too!

Portland Rose Garden

Turning Japanese

Japanese Gardens, Portland, Oregon

Iris

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

Mary, Mary

Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.

There goes the Neighborhood

Life

Booked

Booked our Georgia vacation.  We had such a great time when we vacationed in the South years ago!

Blooming

Lovely Lilacs

Sidewalk Sale

Hey Sunshine

Morning

Spinus tristis

 

They always seem like the same ones –
Two, three, four or five of them –
First in a hedgerow near Assisi,
Then under the lime trees in Foligno,
Now in the conifers by the house,

Pert, crimson-cheeked, opening
Veined butterfly wings
And flashing yellow
Like a ribbon in dark hair,

One moment they perch to crane and peer
Then like children in a game they spur
Each other into flight, bouncing
Like raindrops, chinking like beads,
Weightless as wind-blown leaves.

They never seem to feed but to exist
On air in air, translucent,
Ubiquitous as dreams, sparks
In perpetual motion without origin
Or aim.

The atmosphere records
Their passage as a flash
Of jewels then
Like spirits they move on.    

~by Damaris West