First Flutterby of the Year - Red Admiral

Go Figure...it's spring in Ohio, too!
















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Honk If You Love Geese-us

The specific epithet canadensis is a New Latin word meaning "from Canada".















Other Beesness:

When there's a thunderstorm in the mountains, the sound rolls and rolls along. I'd tried to capture it here, but the G12 mostly just picked up the sound of the rain.



Finally, this just in from the BBC:



UPDATE: Carmi's blog featured Thematic Photographic 189 - Branded this week. Generally, my pictures don't involve any brands (because, you know). However, someone (Jim, himself, perhaps?) parked this Jaguar on the dirt road near the house this weekend. Normally, no one parks on the road, and this car stuck out. So I took the picture, and voila!, I have my entry.


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Redbud Salad

So I decided to pick some of these wonderful flowers and make a salad. I read somewhere that they have a bitter taste, but that is not true at all. Arugula has a bitter taste. This is closer to the truth.

I didn't have any other greens to mix with the flowers, so I just ate those in the bowl with pepper, olive oil, and rice vinegar for dressing. It was delicious! And you could just as easily add the flowers to a regular salad, to add extra flavor, nutrition, and color.

Also, they're free! See avid forager B^4 for more.





P.S. I've taken 186 pictures since I last downloaded what was on the camera on Tuesday. Here are a few more.









Suet feeder blogging has been absent since the remote for the camera stopped working. Fortunately, this Downy Woodpecker let me approach to a point that was even closer than any I've used to date with the tripod.



(Cross-posted at Whiskey Fire. Mouse over pics for captions, and click them for larger versions.)
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