Finally!
I truly believe it is Spring! :^)
65° and sunny, and I am thoroughly enjoying it!
I sat in the grass "playing" with photographing my Fairy Houses ~
In the midst of drifts of little Bluettes...
Love these sweet little baby-blue flowers!
They are so tiny that you would really never
notice them unless you were looking for them...
I took the photos in the neighboring lot....recently planted with a multitude of trees,
so we probably don't have to worry about any actual
building going on in the foreseeable future...
Happy that I have never been allergic to anything (except poison ivy)!
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Here is the newest, (slightly smaller than the first ones) ~
Fairy House ~ (shingled by Mr. B.) ~
I so wish these charming
little Bluettes could last the season long ~ they are fleeting, though
so I'll have to get as many photos as I can, while they last.
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Maybe the Fae will move right in...;^)
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The most distinguished Fae, of course, leave their footwear at the door...;^)
I have to tell you about the first pair of little green Fairy Shoes that I made...
you may notice them on the steps of one of the Fairy House photos...
Well, I just picked up that house (to move it to a better location for the Bluettes)
without a second thought to the shoes...
They probably fell right down to the ground, past the reach
of mowers and such...
I hope they stay there for years and years...to be found some day by
some little folk, sure the Fae had been there!
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This is my prototype for the first "Mini" Fairy House...
made on a glass ornament, the details on this one are tiny!
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Awww.....Max....my remaining boy-bunny, in his side of the Bunny-Duplex...
Sadly, his mate, Ruby, passed on to that great Bunny-Hutch in Heaven last summer...
We don't know why; she was spayed
(unspayed female bunnies can have so many health problems),
and was cared for in the best bunny-way possible...
Sweet Max remains, and has since learned how to go down
to the lower level (where he can pick his own greens, if he likes...
(The bunny duplex has 3 levels; the main one, then an upper level
where it's warmer for winter, and the bottom level that goes down to
the ground where they can eat grass if they want; Max is the only
one that has learned to go down there!) ~ ♥
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A tiny little visitor to the Bunny Hutch...
would have made me squeal and jump away in the past...
now I just try to get a picture...
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Winter Savory!
Last year the savory was this size by the first of March....
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Also, last year our winter was SO mild that the petunias...
and most of the annuals...didn't freeze ~
It was strange, just continuing 2011's flowers into Summer 2012!
Although we didn't have a "bad" 2012 winter, considering...
maybe a few nights into the 'teens.
I'm actually glad that we can begin with a clean slate
this year and start with all new annuals....
with no guilt...:^)
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...Cat Mint...
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Pretty "Henbit"
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Okay, I don't recommend the "draw" feature on many of
the "photo-shop-type" software things available....they are pretty crude ~
But they can convey the message ~
I will always
think that pretty purple Henbit looks like little Llamas...
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While I was sitting at one of the patio tables photographing the little
Fairy Shoes, I kept hearing cooing and rustling behind me...
on top of the arbor, in the dried Cypress Vines from last year,
Mourning Doves had again made a nest...
(Honestly, I don't see how these little creatures exist,
such shabby nest-makers they are...
The hymn should be
"His Eye is on the Dove" instead of the sparrow!)
They are still hanging in there, despite all the wind we have had today!
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Whilst I was trying to make my finicky camera focus on the little Mama dove's eye,
and not all the dried vines, her mate came to check me out...
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Have a wonderful Spring Sunday, All!
Love,
Linking to Beverly's Pink Saturday!
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