White, Yellow, Pink and Green and Birds and Dragonflies in between!

Continuing with the spring photos today..

and some late spring ones too.

I love the bright, sunny colors that the new plants and

flowers bring to spring.

Especially the bright, neon green of fresh growth and the sunny yellows, bright pinks and bright whites...

Marsh Marigolds (cowslips):

New apple blossoms sprouting on our apple trees:

(at the time this posts, those blossoms are now apples growing, about the size of a large quarter already!)

Cherry Blossoms!:

Chipping sparrow at our feeders (just threw that in because with Spring, comes all KINDS of birds to our feeders!):

I always know it is getting warmer when I see that

the

dragonflies have hatched!:

Bohemian Waxwing in our apple blossoms!:

I loved this log full of mushrooms overhanging a field full of fresh white

Trilliums!:

Bright green, unfurling ferns!:

Mother Nature really does a good job of putting fresh flowers

and colors on its table for us after a long, drab

winter, doesn't she??

I'd like to invite her over to help me do my delayed spring cleaning...

what do you say, Mom Nature???

Smitten and Distracted

I am smitten.

It happens every spring.

It's wildflowers.

And

Trilliums in particular.

They bloom here around Memorial Day, give or take a few weeks,

and

then they only live for about a week and die.

But while they are here,

they are glorious.

We were heading for a wedding late May and I spied
some on the side of the road.

I wanted to stop and get some photos, but my husband didn't think
it a good idea to hike up my long skirt to climb over the grass on a public highway in my heels to do so.
(Silly man).

But, I honored his opinion and waited until the next day to go out
to our favorite place in the woods
to capture some shots of them.

We found a whole entire hillside of them!:

I just love looking at flowers from all different angles:

Some even had some wild forget-me-nots

beside them too!:

Then I spied a beautiful light blue butterfly

flitting all over.

I must have chased him for 5 minutes and he would land

but with his wings CLOSED.

I finally captured one of him with his wings

partially open and on a wild strawberry blossom:

Now...

where WAS I?

Oh yeah..

the trilliums...

(See? Didn't I tell you I was distracted from all of Nature's wildflower beauty?)

Do you SEE why Trilliums are one of my favorite wildflower?

They are protected in Michigan and cannot be picked or transplanted:

And then the apple blossoms

came out.

Oh.

My.

And we had a flock of Bohemian Waxwings

fly into our yard and start eating the blossoms with flurry!:

Where was I (again??)

Oh,  yes...

the Trilliums!:

You can see why I get distracted

with our U.P. Spring.

Everywhere you look, there are gorgeous wildflowers

and birds and blossoms.

I wanted to get back out to take more Trillium photos and we got a few weeks straight of rain!

So it's a good thing I got out there that ONE day.

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Happy 4th of July everyone!
Hope you are having a wonderful holiday filled with family and fun!