Spring has arrived! I love Spring! It is my favorite season of the year. It seems like it has taken forever for it to come this year. The temperatures refused to rise and the sun seemed to have been on vacation the month of April.
I love to watch the leaves come out on the trees and see everything come alive again. I take daily sneaks at the flower beds around my house watching for my perennials to see if they survived another winter. This year I've had the joy of watching three little squirrels playing in the hickory nut tree right outside my window. Their little tails never stop twitching! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to snap any pictures because they keep themselves mostly hidden in the leaves.
Most of the other blogs that I follow post pictures. So I am going to try out a few. These are a few pictures that I have shot over the past couple of weeks of things that I have seen outside my windows...
These are the two apple trees that I have in my yard. There are several more fruit trees on the farm. They really blossomed this year. The blossoms are mostly off the trees now, but the pollen seems to be out in full force. I'm not allergic to it, but I am not a fan of the yellow dust that covers everything outside and sticks to my freshly scrubbed screens and windows! Later in the summer, we will have several deer and their babies stop by to eat the apples. I have spent a lot of time - probably too long - watching the fawns.
Is there anything prettier than the sight of freshly turned ground? Is there any smell better than the smell of freshly turned soil? Then again, you are talking to the girl who looked forward to driving past a big dairy farm every Friday on her way home from college just to get a whiff of that great manure smell! It smelled so much like home after being stuck in a city all week. My brother always teased me that he was going to put some cow manure in a jar so I could keep it in my apartment! There is just something about that smell!!! I love it! There is nothing better than growing up in the country.
Well, the whole picture thing was easier than I thought!! I'll have to post pictures more often!
Hopefully you all are enjoying Spring as well. If you haven't lately, take some time to look out your windows and enjoy the wonderful gift that God has given us.
