These are pictures from downtown Columbus...not pictures I took...I don't think of "pictures" at a time like this....

Millie survives the storm....

Hail after the afternoon storm...May 25th

Very Cute...And Very Hungry!...

Baby Praying Mantis...those are pine needles near him...to get an idea of how small he is...Small but very fast!

A Dianthus nest....

Location, location, location....

Dinnertime in Indiana!

Chickens in front drive after a heavy rain, eating the worms that seep out of the grass....

Ootheca Farm....Praying Mantis Eggs....If these are "Stagmomantis Carolina Mantis" they will have as many as two hundred babies in each egg casing. That means I might have a thousand babies on the way!

You can check out this site to see an ootheca hatching.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzACu6-I1F4

Turtle from pond heading out to lay her eggs...She is about a foot long.

Sandy and I went on a tree gathering expedition. You can see way out in the field there are some woods. We had to walk on a fallen tree that wobbled precariously twenty feet over a raging river to get to the woods. OK, maybe it was only four feet over a one foot deep swale…but it was still adventurous.

We did bring back some trees…but we spent the better part of two hours foraging for mushrooms! I have never been on a mushroom hunt. I love “finding” things. In the second picture off in the distance you can make out “Mayapples”. It is thought that you often find mushrooms near Mayapples. Perhaps it is because they both come out at the same time.

The third picture shows my first mushroom! We found about twenty of these fine tasting “Morels”. Not that I ate them :)

Cold Mornings...

Easter Egg Hunt 2011...

Spring Prowl...

Alien in the Pond....

The New Swing in the Field....

April Sunset...Bruce and Baki...

Male goose guarding the pond...female is nesting....Early May.

Bluebells in the woods...

Swollen rivers Spring 2011...Anderson Falls

New "Little Chicken" joins Millie on the farm.....