baby robins

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in the garden today

I love my garden today.

First David Austin English Rose Bloom

  

White Rhododendron

  

Lady’s Mantle

  

Spiderwort

  

Miss Kim Lilac

  

Scotch Broom blooming

 

this is summer….

sunflowersA cool evening  with a breeze coming in the open windows,

The sounds of cicadas and happy children playing. 

Sun flowers and Black-eyed Susans,

This is summer.

 

flowers from the garden

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nasturtium

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new birds!

DSC_0007We have never seen this bird before at any of our feeders.  At first I thought the male might be some kind of Oriole, but I wasn’t sure, so I looked it up.  It is a Rose-breasted Grosbeak! We have a mating pair and I don’t know if they will stick around all spring and summer or not because according to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology it looks like Pennsylvania is mostly in the breeding range of states, but it looks like on the tiny map that part of Pennsylvania is in their migration range.

Anyway, it is a bird I have never noticed before, so I thought I would share!

 

any port in the storm

as seen in the rain….

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daffodils!

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puschkinia scilloides “alba”

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new growth

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