"Come, Take a Walk With Me"

Spring has finally completely arrived here in Indiana,
well almost...we are under a freeze warning tonight and
tomorrow night, go figure, it's Indiana!!!!!!
But anyway, I took a walk around my yard earlier, and thought

you might want to come with me...


Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal flew in for a dining treat at my
backyard diner.  Very cool thing that I saw, he
was feeding her.  She stayed perched on the top of the pole, and he took seeds up to her, and put them in her mouth ... How cool is that???? I'm thinking maybe it's not Mr. & Mrs... they must be courting :)  (LOL)

Now my next visitor was this very skiddsh red-bellied woodpecker.  I wasn't sure I was going to get his picture, but I'm pretty stubborn and not one that easily gives up *grin*   (Now you know how I get all those little quilt blocks made!)                                       

Around the corner from this bird diner is my Bleeding Heart Plant.  I really Love this plant, it was of my grandmother's favorites.  Guess it's a nostalia thing for me :)  Won't be long before my Lily of the Valley will be blooming...which was one of my other grandmother's favorites,  she even wore a perfume by that name :)

   Next stop is the suet cage feeder.  Where there is always a woodpecker of some type to be found.  I'm not sure of the name of this particular one, but he is pretty:)  The ladder looking thing in the background is one of my new grape arbors.  We started two of these last year, one has Concord grapes and the other has Niagra White grapes.  Hopefully in the next year or two we will begin to reap a harvest from them:)  I can already picture and smell the jellies & juices!

Now moving on into the front yard, we find my Flowering Crab tree.  This tree has the sweetest smell :)  And you don't have to be near it to be able to smell the sweetness.  The flowers are a beautiful pink.  It has very few leaves while the flowers are on, then the flowers fall off and it's full of dark green shiney leaves.  A close up of the flowers has become my blog picture, at least for the time being!

Now on to the side of the house and we find this small lavender colored ground cover plant...that I can't remember the name of :(  But it is pretty and it is finally taking off and spreading, just like I hoped for!

And that brings back where we started, only to find the good old Blue Jay.

And of course his mouth is open and he is squawking about something!!!!  Last year we several pairs of Blue Jays... and let me tell you they are the noisest birds I have ever heard, and smart too.  They could open the suet cage I had, so I bought a new one with a lock on it that they couldn't open.  Because once they got it opened, the suet was gone in a day.  Well I hope you enjoyed our walk.  Maybe we will do it again when summer arrives, and the scenery changes again:)

Hugs & Blessings,

Terry 

P.S.  Don't forget you can click on the pictures to enlarge them for a better view:)