Images of Spring

Monarch butterfly visiting my hanging verbena.

It's Spring, my favorite season, a time of renewal when the earth awakens from its winter slumber and is reborn with new energy. In the eternal life cycles of Mother Earth, spring is the dawn, the new day on the horizon, a time of fresh beginnings. For those of us living in climates with changing seasons, in spring we turn off the furnace, open doors and windows wide to let in the invigorating fresh air not yet heavy with the oppressive heat of summer, and become immersed in the sensory delights of the season.

The season of spring is awakened in my yard.

Hearing the distinctive "kee-aah" call of the Red-shouldered Hawk when I opened my patio door, I grabbed my camera and caught a shot of the hawk in the budding trees. Their breeding season is April to July, so I am betting this beautiful hawk is out and about looking for a mate...and a lunch date!

Red-shouldered Hawk (as seen from my patio).

Sitting outside sipping my morning coffee, I watched a colorful robin having fun in the birdbath.

Robin thoroughly enjoying the birdbath!

Handsome rabbit looking around my back yard (and not yet seen by my dogs lol!).

Two rabbits in my front yard. Well, we all know what can happen here...bunny love in the air! Soon they will be mating like....

Grey squirrel munching on berries from the cedar tree (photo taken from my window).

Praying mantis, beneficial insect for the garden and quite cool looking, too. This one was found on the screen door to my patio.

Charlotte skillfully catches dinner in her web (Orb Weaver Spider near my garden shed).

Monarch butterfly whispers to the yellow marigolds. Monarchs are such beautiful butterflies and I'm always delighted to spot them in my yard.

Orange marigolds greet the sun (there's a busy bee in the center pollinating the flowers).

Rows of geraniums and more marigolds waiting to be planted in my garden.

And the fragrant signs of spring in the air.

Lilac blossoms

Cherry blossoms

The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enjoy the season!


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