Our April Showers have been mostly white so far. See April 3rd for example:
But they did bring some April flowers! Can you spot our very first blooms in this April 13th picture?
No? I'll zoom in.
We recently learned the name of this hand-me-down bulb from Mom's mother, who got it from her mother in law, who got it from a community friend. (My great-grandma's journals are full of these neat facts that tie our life and things in our home back to her days.)
The plant is called Scilla or Squills. It is tiny and easy to miss completely. So glad I looked at the right time this year!
I also cut in some little lilac leaf-buds that day. Here is what they looked like at first.
And more green two days later...
Also last Sunday, I had some restful birdwatching and cloud-watching from deck and porch. The back-lit layers of rain clouds rolling in before sunset finally got me to pull out my watercolors again to add to my nature journal.
And yes, we identified 14 kinds of birds by sight and another by sound, plus there were more we couldn't name.
What a gift of an afternoon!
