Spring Begins...Hallelujah~

~Palm Sunday~

YEAH!!!  

We made it, another Winter by calendar date is behind us, yet alas, snow is on it's way to parts of the USA.  My father once reminded me that one day it was light, but that snow fell one Kentucky Derby day and that is always the first Saturday in May.  

I was going to do a entry about my great-grand-father and grandmother this week, but I will need more time to work on it.  I hope that everyone has enjoyed their weekend.  Today was one of the best days that I have had in well over two long months...a thankful heart~  

Remember to double click on the first image, to view a larger slideshow presentation after                                                                you have read the narratives~

I will be linking up with Judith for:

www.lavendercottagegardening.com

Mosaic Monday

&

Stewart for:

   http://paying-ready-attention-gallery.blogspot.com.au/

Wild Bird Wednesday

Everyone has a special place where they can take solace and feel a part of something. My dear friend Teressa introduced me to the Anchorage Trail several years ago now. I am thinking that I have been there at least a hundred times since that introduction. I go to walk, to be close to earth, to find silence even in the sounds nature shares. One connection that I have to it, began when I was just about 5 years old. Our family had moved to Middletown, KY from Portland, Oregon. The Post Office was in Anchorage and my mother had no car. If we needed stamps, or just to get out for a while, we, my mother, my twin sister Haze and I would walk from Middletown up the beautiful Evergreen Road, all the way to Anchorage and back, which is a little over two miles. For a five year old, it seemed like a long walk, but mother said I never complained.  Those were the first long walks that I ever took. When I visit the Anchorage Trail, I feel the connection to mother, my sister and the way it was back then to be close with her, and it is sweet~

A Red-Shouldered Hawk photographed really out of range of my 70/300 lens, and yet I was able to bring life to a few of them for this post~

I had Nana duty last week.  Two afternoons with my twin grands and a little while one day with my grand-daughter.  While Kerrick attended a "Tinker Club" at his school, I gathered up Cullen for a little while at Cave Hill and feeding of ducks, geese, swans and oh yes, fish too.  I watched little Maci while her mother was in seeing her physician also~

Silly Swan, kept biting at Cullen's show, reminding him that he was hungry~

I walked the Anchorage Trail two days also and on Tuesday morning, there were oodles of spider webs in the open fields.  Here are a few of them~

In this field where the White-tailed Deer gathered, there were hundreds of  spider webs of various sizes~

A doe and her yearling fawn sleepily make their way across a field on Friday.  I liked the primitive look of these images, taken just after dawn~

A Mute Swan swan across the lake at Anchorage Trail, and the reflections were amazing.  This is a male, just like the one biting Cullen's shoe above.  Both females of the pairs were killed by Coyotes...sadly~

The wee little Praying Mantis Eveas, is with us 13 weeks now and seems to be fine.  I did this image with my cell phone and one of it's edits~