Home and Insurance: Blooming..Buzzing…Budding..

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton Read More...

Ahhhh….Well..there is just no question that Spring is in the air!
All that buzzing…and blooming… and budding…

Our weather keeps changing so much that I hardly know what to wear! One day it’s unseasonably warm and every bug and his cousin is out for a stroll and the next day it’s chilly and everyone, including the bees..goes back to bed.
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Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation
if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard

This determined little luna moth has been ‘hanging out’ on our dining room window screen for three days.

At night, poor thing, he’s tries his best to get in. And during the day…he just waits...

For what? I don’t know… but it happens every year.

You’d think we had the only light on in the window for miles around! The moths just flock to our house!
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How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude.
Emily Dickinson

This afternoon, Christian took a walk around the house and yard to capture the first hints of spring for us. Thanks Christian!

Here in the front yard, the grass is greening up very nicely and the trees are budding. It’s so so pretty!
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

These brave little flowers were blooming just beside the front sidewalk. Christian did a lovely job capturing their tiny beauty.

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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher

In the backyard we have this beautiful tree. I don’t know what kind it is..but the leaf cutter ants ADORE it! It took me two years to figure out why this tree kept losing it’s leaves..over and over again. I’d look out my kitchen window..and the leaves would be dropping like flies.

Can you believe it? The ants were harvesting it.

Once the leaves were gone, they let them grow back, then harvested it again. Mystery solved.
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“Ants are good citizens they place group interests first”
Clarence Day quotes

Yesterday was gray and wet, but warm. The Camelia bush was covered in gorgeous blooms!

Today it was bright and gorgeous but cool. Still..the youngest goldfish were happily sunning in the pond this morning.

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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.” Bill Vaughn quotes

Our early bloomer, the tulip tree, has just about lost all of it’s blossoms.

This is the last one. Soon it will be covered in nothing but huge green leaves.
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb

My mystery bush…is covered with blossoms this week. I still don’t know what it is!

It looks so lovely next to our antique well house…

This photo is by me. All the rest were taken by my son, Christian.

And the neighbors goats are REALLY happy about the fresh grass. I had to get a photo of them on our morning walk. I adore this little bitty goat. He once ran up our driveway… I thought he was a dog! We say HI to these guys every day.

I guess the grass really is greener on the other side!
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Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.
Sue Grafton

Oh my goodness! Sigh…I guess that’s what I get for letting Christian have the camera!

He LOVES taking photos of me..and I just don’t get it. :o) Funny boy…

How about you? Still covered in snow?….or are you getting a few blossoms too…

Don’t you think it’s a perfect day for a walk?

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“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.” George Washington Carver quotes