What we saw.....

driving around the block. (Be advised--this is a country block of about 5 miles)

Everything is sooooo brown--hopefully color will begin to show itself soon, although it is supposed to snow on Monday.

The geese are back and making their nests.

Red-winged blackbirds are everywhere for about the past week and a half.
A very handsome mallard duck

The turkeys are strutting about.

This is our favorite spot to see great-blue herons, green herons and an assortment of ducks. Today it was all about Canadian geese.

And the drives big excitement was Mark catching these white-tail deer in a picture.

Great shot, Mark!!

After we got home we just hung around outside.

Amy

The temperature reached the mid-60's today, sunny and just beautiful.

We planted a few marigold seeds to grow indoors. You don't plant anything outside around here until about mid May.

Laura

We took a walk in the fields out back and Gracie spotted a bird nest from last year.

We were searching for pussywillows, but it is still too early to find any---we only found things the color brown.

We did spot a few monkies up a tree when we got home.

Usually we have young monkies hanging around, but today we even spotted some OLD monkies!!