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It’s been a long time coming but my favorite apple tree by the road is in full bloom.
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Technically it’s a weird variety of crabapple that doesn’t fruit.
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But who needs bitter fruit when you have this preponderance of fragrant blooms?
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The scent is pure heaven.
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But be careful sniffing..
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The bees love it as well.
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We had a new guest at Casa River yesterday.
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Running up and down the driveway at lightning speed.
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They’re cute little fellows we rarely see on our property.
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A shorebird who often nests alongside fields..
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The killdeer emits a shrill shriek of a call and is famous for pretending to have a broken wing and luring predators away from its nest with its supposed injury.
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Cute.
And smart.
Not to mention fast.
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Why eat standing up…
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When lying down works just as well.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten is an interactive television watcher.
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Especially when it’s a Nature documentary on birds of prey.
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Summer is coming.
You’re welcome.
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It’s been a weird, cold and wet spring. We still have temperatures dropping to 40 so while the grass is a stunning vibrant green…
Most of the trees haven’t leafed out yet.
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Not that His Lordship cares, there are still mice to hunt.
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The Orioles are still here and eating jars of grape jelly faster than I can buy them. They’re beautiful and hungry.
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A bluebird, just because.
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Our resident fox is a beauty.
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Healthy, bright eyed and judging from this photo?
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Possibly a momma.
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Who likes to lie down while eating.
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Six Baltimore Orioles stopping by for a brief time on their way to northern breeding grounds.
Put out oranges and grape jelly the first time you see one… then sit back and enjoy the bright orange show.
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I fear I may have tripped a disturbing algorithm by clicking on those pole dancing mice a while back.
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Now I’ve got a squirrel working the room for tips .
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Be still my heart.
I don’t have all the ingredients yet so if you beat me to it, let me know how they turn out.
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Required momma woodchuck photo.
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This decanter is wrong in so many ways I don’t know where to start…
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Pickle soup? Equally as wrong…
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Our beautiful fox shows up every day at dusk.
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We think she has a den in our back woods.
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And though I put special food out for her, every once in a while she steals the bread I put out for the birds.
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Because everyone needs to carb load now and then.
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Don’t get excited, I’m not talking about me. That ship has sailed.
And burst into flames and sunk.
I’m talking about woodchucks, and from the look of our resident Momma…
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I’d say baby chuck sightings are getting close.
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I saw this advertisement the other day and thought it was a marvelous way to raise money.
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“Be kind to the flamingos”.
Words to live by.
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Sometimes bad taxidermy is so bad it’s good.
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We drove by this restaurant in Portland the other day, and while I’m no prude… I dislike advertisements, bumper stickers and political signs with crude language. If you’re wondering why eight year olds are responding “f*ck yeah!” to the question would you like a cookie?… here’s your answer.
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Bluebird!
Eating at the snazzy new feeder we bought without a thought to how it would be covered in bird poo in 10 seconds flat.
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Now that’s an interesting deal. Store your junk and get free frozen custard every week. With the amount of junk my spouse could store.. we’d have a freezer full in no time.
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