Sunspotting

 Our sunflowers are all coming into bloom.  I planted them in a double row and I love how they track the movement of the sun. 

The garden shed

Clover's litter on a rainy morning

I have more photos of the pups on the Nursery Blog

Growth acceleration

Broccoli Rapini flowering

 It is amazing to watch the garden explode with life, such an incredible time for nature. 

Our Schnauzers population has exploded this week, Clover gave birth Monday to thirteen pups!  Want to follow the pups journey from birth to when they leave for their new homes?  Visit our Nursery Blog

Strawberries forming

A couple of sunflowers blooming a little early

Our Sage overwintered and is flowering

What evil lurks in the shadows

A new hen (and rooster) house

Usually I am sharing photos of a litter of pups when they are moved from the puppy nursery upstairs down to the main floor of the house.  This time, I am posting photos of my chicks, almost 5 weeks of age that were moved into their own little coop and run to grow up.  They are at that post fluffy chick cuteness, but not yet totally feathered and handsome, they sort of look like spotty feathered, adolescent.... dinosaurs :-)

Well, except for this beauty

This is a beautiful Silver Grey Dorking pullet (hen) So gorgeous.  Below is one of her brothers

Yes a rooster amongst the ladies.  Will he stay?  Don't know, depends on how tame he is, and, most important, how quiet he is.

Checking out their new world and contemplating leaving their coop for the outside world