From my walk yesterday. It has been cold and raining all week!

So many of my orchids are blooming or about to. Here's one...

Indigo bunting...such a stunning color...don't think I've seen one around here...though we do have blue birds.

Yes, the Indigo bunting is the most beautiful, almost unreal blue. I've never had one here.......they are all at my friend's house a few miles away. LOL

Mackinac Bridge

A duck in Paris

The rivers in N. California are flowing at their highest in five years thanks to the record breaking rainfall this past winter. Spring runoff is adding to the flows as the snow in the mountains has started to melt with the arrival of warm weather.

One of mine.

Taken just now.

ElizabethA, I have to make a decision at some point during my tour around the Great Lakes, on weather to ride across this bridge... but I am thinking, it isn't allowed for bicycles.

Saturdays storm damaged a lot of Bradford pear trees here in OKC.

No bicycles are allowed on the Mackinac Bridge. I know they will escort groups of bicyclists over by packing everyone in a van. It is a breathtaking view.

I occasionally see an indigo bunting for a couple of days as they pass through southern Wisconsin during spring migration. By May 30th, I have seen indigos staking out nesting sites in the Keweenaw peninsula of Upper Michigan.