A patch of trillium along the trails. The woods were brown and covered in leaves just two weeks ago and are now green and full of wildflowers and a lot of thorns.

Trillium, the state wildflower in Michigan.

In the garden.

Forsythia

Redbud tree blooms.

Bleeding hearts. The next night we had a freeze that killed all these flowers.

One of my favorite trees

A cardinal nest.

There’s finally an egg in the cardinal nest.

Newly hatched Cardinal

Pregnant deer…. see how the belly protrudes below her middle?

Some of the first wildflowers spotted in the woods.

Michigan wildflowers

The last bluebird egg in the first laid clutch sits on the ground destroyed. It is now legal for me to remove the nesting material from the nest box. It’s illegal to destroy a viable song bird’s nest.

A few days later there was a new clutch of bluebird eggs laid.

Female Eastern Bluebird guarding her nest.

Eastern Bluebird fledgings

Sometimes I’m driving down the road and I’ll see a horse, a donkey and a goat hanging out.

Or catch sight of a bird nesting on my way home from work and have to stop for a quick picture.

A leaping deer.

Three robin eggs.

Magnolia

Catching some down time in the park.

Had a great visit to the Skeba’s farm on Lake Leelanau.

We found some morel mushrooms.

And we found a fawn too.

Allium

Jack in the Pulpit