June Daisies

Here's Looking at You

A barred owl watched me walk through the woods.

Lots of Shrooms

A rainy spring means lots of mushrooms in the woods.

A mushroom village

Sponge-like fungus

Witch's Butter

Red cup-like fungus

 

 

 White toadstool with gills underneath

Red toadstool

Strawberry Fields Forever

Today, my oldest grandchild & I went strawberry picking.

Lots of other people had the same idea!

But there were plenty of juicy ridpe berries for everyone.

This was first for my dear granddaughter.

But she said it was the favorite part of her day.

Looks like strawberry shortcake tonight!

The Beginnings of a Hornets' Nest

I noticed this odd gray bulb near the trail.

After examining it, I decided it was the beginning stage of a hornets' nest.

Probably blown down in a spring storm.

Time to rebuild.

A Different Perspective

Here's a shot from hubby's drone of us kayaking Morse Reservoir.

What a neat perspective!

Floating along

My daughter & I took another kayak trip today.

The temps were just right & we saw lots of critters.

This trip, we paddled on Morse Reservoir

We went under several bridges including this railroad bridge.

Almost every bridge had swallows nesting under them.

We encountered wood ducks, mallards, Canadian geese and even saw 2 osprey.

Found a big water snake sunning on a log.

And we saw something we'd never seen before - a swimming squirrel!