♥️ They stay with us forever and always
Be well.

Snow covers the spring buds and green grass after an April snow squall

Flower buds beginning to open on bush along garage

Kids outside enjoying the brief snow shower on a gray early spring day

Thin layer of snow covers porches and green early spring lawns

Big difference from 80°F last night to near freezing today. We got outside to enjoy anyhow. Hope your cooler day went well. Got some blooms opening outside. The hummingbirds are pretty quick to find them when they open so 🤞 #nature #bloomscrolling #photography #getoutside #aprilshowers

Laughing Gulls (Charadriiformes: Laridae: Leucophaeus atricilla) feed on a wide variety of invertebrates and fish, so they're mainly found near coasts. They spend summers as far north as the Great Lakes and Maine and migrate south in winter. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, 17 Jun 2017.

Laughing Gulls (Charadriiformes: Laridae: Leucophaeus atricilla) feed on a wide variety of invertebrates and fish, so they're mainly found near coasts. They spend summers as far north as the Great Lakes and Maine and migrate south in winter. Padre Island National Seashore, Texas, 17 Jun 2017.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics.

Thank you so very much 😁

Magnificent blue and pink dark cloud shelf cloud under shelf from thunderstorm supercell in neighboring valley.

Thunderstorm on the other side of the mountain ridge made for a surreal shot in our calm valley
#photography #nature #thunderstorm

Right?

And outdoors;is cool too,bright?

How many to a pot?

Chipmunk with full cheeks viewed through a scope

Chipmunk gathering bird seed
#nature #chipmunk #photography

Bird blends in on ground under feeder

Bird blends in on ground under feeder

Birds. Can you see them? Not easy.

Bluejay on a branch through a scope

Two bluejays by a bird feeder seen through a scope

Bluejay on feeder

#nature #birds #bluejays #photography

Rocks anchor piece of paper at base of large tree with the words dead bat written in marker and an arrow pointing to an actual dead bat resting at the bottom of the paper.

Sign at base of tree pointing to an actual dead bat displayed

Moses dragging his leash on path next to the impromptu dead bat memorial

Someone memorialized a dead bat down by the park. Rest in peace little buddy 🦇 🌅

Flower pots in warm basement utility room under grow light

Seedlings growing in flower pots

Seedlings and small bushes growing in makeshift grow area in basement

Hey #gardening people. I have no idea what I'm doing so I let the kids pick some seed packs, put them in dirt under a grow lamp, water and this is what happened so far.
When r u supposed to plant #indoors? #flowers and vegetables? #greenthumbs ? #seedlings #learndirt

Sorry, that isn't right. Fortunately we live outside our city limits but in the town so city ordinances are moot and the rest of us are mountain dwellers. Just happen to live next to a very, I dunno, unneighborly without being overtly unneighborly.

Our roomba never comes out. I think it's afraid of the dog...

Wishing my Bluesky 🦋 #fungifriends a very happy #Fungifriday with these various veiled #mushrooms.

Our neighbor kept 'helpfully' cutting along our lawn. Dude hates anything over ½", I swear.

Sunset over distant hills, city park fields in foreground

Pond edge surrounded by dried brown reeds, green grasses and aquatic plants welcoming spring first

Large streaming pillar of cloud rising up from cloud bank over mountain landscape

#hiking #nature #photography

(there are no bad puppies. Just mischievous. It's not the same thing...)

Happy #mushroommonday afternoon Bluesky 🦋 #fungifriends. Four photos of very diverse mushrooms from my files.

Man in purple shirt and jeans, his entire right side covered in mud

The hill we flew our kites in turned out to be pretty muddy. (And slippery!)
#outdoors #springtime

Assorted flower/planter pots under a grow light fixture along a basement wall, small seedlings sprouting looking hopeful for the day they will bathe in real sunlight and rain out of doors

Seedlings under a grow lamp. I don't know what I'm doing so I germinated some seeds and moved them into pots after they sprouted.
They seem to be growing decently. Hopefully they turn into lots of beautiful of flowers...
Thinking about doing Aquaponics.
Fish and flowers 🤔
#gardening #flowers

or something so we can wave to each other 😛 An outdoor concert, a holiday parade, a fair or carnival...
I want to have a great spring and summer out of doors.

It's from the heart...and all our hearts are a bit broken right now so we all get it. 😉
Maybe we can set up a Bluesky designated event here in the Catskills. Find a good local event or celebration in the area and wear a super secret bluesky pin...(1/2)

I should get something like that. Was bequeathed some grow light fixtures.
Haven't done much with them yet.

On my android if you push and hold the $ symbol it opens up the ¢ option (and £,¥,€) push and hold the key and it should give you all other options for that key e.g. a, æ, ã, å under the a key

Cat enjoys laying in old shoebox ignoring a large recently purchased cat house

Miss my bike on days like these. A motorcycle makes the start of spring even more anticipatory.
Drive safe and have a great spring start!

Give them a warm welcome from me too. Beautiful!
(The plants emerging is my favorite part of spring. I heard two large gaggles of geese flying in overhead but they were at serious altitude and over the clouds. I was surprised I could hear them so clearly)
Thanks and have a wonderful spring start! 🏞️