1/2 of an inch more of rain today

but it was clearing by early afternoon. The pond is beautiful but all of my camera batteries are being charged, and I don't draw well enough to really make that attempt. It would just be more cloud pictures anyway.
The cattails reeds are growing a couple of inches each day and the penny wort isn't much slower. They will hide the brown quickly now.
There are several ring-necked doves in my backyard right now and one of them is almost albino, but with the dark ring.

Beautiful, full-moon night.

Three-tenths of an inch of rain this morning

and it has remained overcast all day. Pleasant.

The Green Seems to be Erupting

I watered and wandered around some,

but was mostly worthless today. I did pull a tumbleweed and a big mass of algae out of the water or I would have been totally worthless. The day was beautiful and the weather was perfect.

The Warmth Has Finally Come -

and the days will change considerably. The worst of the most relentless wind should be past, but wind never really ends here.

These are pictures of a hummingbird that Cashmere found frozen to a honeysuckle branch on Easter morning (after the traditional freeze). She and Bill broke the branch off and took it inside with the bird still attached. It was rigid in every direction, but actually warmed up, came to life, and eventually left by the sliding door to the backyard. The next morning she found another one but it was beyond repair.

Beautiful day but still cold in the morning,

and I'm not complaining, just noticing. I moved the jasmine plant (not real, star jasmine, but still very fragrant) to the East side of the waterfall and some catnip to the West side. Maybe some day this will be a nice blue/white contrast. Nothing new because I'm checking out less is more. Maybe if I don't spend so much time planting more things every year, and instead just nurture (fertilize, water adequately, weed, etc.) what has already been planted.

Cashmere and I just saw a beautiful little green bird. He almost looked like a parakeet, but it was obviously born to be wild, and it had a black mohawk.