Last week of Summer 2015

On Saturday, we went to the Blue Ridge Parkway hoping to see the Monarch butterflies migrating south. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any………now I’m thinking about going to see the butterflies in Mexico 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Butterfly_Biosphere_Reserve The leaves were already starting to show beautiful Fall colors.    

Daffodils

Flowers blooming all around me 🙂 The seasons are shifting, The winter shades lifting, The springtime is filling Earth’s children with mirth. The daffodil yellow, The south wind so mellow, The gentle rain falling, Upon the green earth. The song sparrow singing, New life quickly springing, All nature is telling A tale of rebirth: The …

Cool and Coolito

Cool and Coolito live in a lake nearby our house. I named the white one Cool and my sister-in-law started calling the other one Coolito 🙂 They quack when they see us coming and run toward us. One day Coolito was so excited that he came running and shaking his wings. Of course we always …

Flowers and dew drops

I thought the bees were dead but even though they were wet they stretched their legs. They were just sleeping. The corkscrew vine was almost gone. Hopefully I will get to see it next year. Life stages.