More this and that from the woods!

Today,

I am showing some of the photos

we got

from a quick, refreshing trip out in the woods.

Sometimes, when things get reallllly hectic

in life,

I ask my husband to take me out for part of a day into the woods.

We ride around and talk and take a picnic lunch

and

look at nature.

It never fails to connect us better and to make us both refreshed.

I believe these are called Fleabane....they are all over on the sides of the roads:

White musk mallow. They remind me of apple blossoms:

I love looking at daisies at different angles:

And up close:

And THIS critter!

We have a love/hate relationship.

He is noisy.

He's a PEST.

He eats all my birdfeed at home....

He starts making noises under my bedroom window about 5:30am

and I want to strangle him!

But they are so cute...

I don't know what kind of flower this is, but I have some in my garden, given to me:

While driving by a pond in the woods, we saw a large ring of water.

We knew SOMETHING was swimming in it, but couldn't see what....

we kept

very

quiet....

and finally, we saw it!

I had to use my zoom lens because it was so far away....

but I got a picture of it...

a little blurry, but my first opportunity to shoot one...

a BEAVER!:

As soon as he saw us, he did the expected...he gave a large SLAP of his tail and went underwater...

From my garden, when we got back home....a budding Iris--

now it has already bloomed and died....

That's what happens...........

if

you

don't pay attention,

every single day....

to the

miracles

around you.........

they happen anyway

and

you've missed the

opportunity

to be

blown away

by them....

I hope you have time today

to see at least

one miracle of nature.

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