There's a Toot hair on the far left flower!Here are some pictures of the earliest flowers of the season. This is my favorite time of year -- when the sun is soft, the wind catches your hair, and the world is green. I suggest listening to Ben Whishaw's reading of Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" while looking at these pictures.
Buds awaiting their glorious hour
Little suns
A curious red fungus growing by a drainpipe.
These flowers smell the best in the world.
Cheech on a hike
Pond reeds
Cattails spreading their seed
Chee gets to swim in the seasonal ponds formed by rainwater
The very ground is a green carpet
Daffodils!
A very rare glimpse of the Communists' face
The edge of the garden
Wildgrass
Little flowers
Plum blossoms
Toot with a huge stick
Baby birch leaves
Ponderosa Pine about to shed pollen
Daffodils amongst the rosemary
Lavender
The chickens and goatsBatilda (B&W on the left) talking
Tracie -- Your adoration of Tumnus made my day! I'm glad others think he's as adorable as we do. I hope you saved the picture for your background ;) Alex took that picture of him when he was a baby and perfectly captured his gentle personality. In this video of the chickens, you can see grown up Tumnus watching me curiously.
