Spring Flowers And Farm Critters

In the winter, I sometimes have trouble coming up with enough photos for blog posts, but once spring arrived, I had the opposite problem - so much to post that the photos began backing up on me. Of course time becomes a problem in the spring. The white Fantail Pigeons began nesting:

The Easter Egger bantams began laying, then became broody:

The cattle and horses continued to come into the barn each morning for a bit of grain, but once the grass was green and lush, I had a hard time getting them to come at all:

They preferred being outside and dining on green grass:

Blue and Remy kept an eye on the little white calf, Lucky:

And everyone enjoyed lounging in the sun. You can see the black calf, Elvis, on the left because this photo was taken before I put him in the barn for bottle feeding:

The bi-colored and yellow Daffodils faded away and then the pure white ones bloomed:


And they sure were beautiful, looking almost like orchids:

The hardy Magnolia I'd fretted over and transplanted last fall put out one flower bud, way down close to the ground. It didn't even have leaves yet. I noticed in this photo that it needed more soil around its base, so I did that right away:

Mowing the lawn, I saw these minuscule flowers and remembered identifying them last year. I couldn't recall their common name, though I remembered the word "Thyme" was in it.

So I went back to last year's blog posts and found that it was Thyme-Leaved Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia):

The old fashioned Lilac buds were just about to open when I snapped this picture: