![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I was lazy today
May. 2nd, 2009 09:00 pmAnd it was good. About normal for the first day of a vacation break. It takes a while for the truth to sink in, and then to realize that you have a whole lot of things you want to accomplish before going back to work. But today I did little that was important. I read a book. I fed the animals and petted the horses a bit, but didn't groom them or really play with them. I went to the bank and deposited my paycheck from yesterday, and went to the grocery but didn't buy much. More about that another time I think.
I looked at flowers. We still have daffodils, though some are through blooming. Gary has planted hundreds of them all color variations and some early, some late. There are scylla and hyacinths blooming too, and the native dark purple trillium flowers are just starting to open. The four apple trees that are still alive (lost another over the winter) are all in bud just waiting to burst open. The buds are brilliant crimson, but the flowers will be pale pink or white when they open. They will smell wonderful and as soon as their petals are falling the wild cherry will add its own snowfall to the breeze. Lilacs (also on their way) and apple blossoms are the most beautiful flower scents of all, in my opinion. The pear tree is covered with big buds too, but those are snowy white. Peas and strawberries are starting to really grow in the garden, and I need to get more stuff going out there, but not today. There was no egg from the one remaining duck hen we have, but she's been giving us one almost every second day, which is good for such an elderly bird.
I watched rose-breasted grosbeaks and listened to them sing. Brilliantly orange orioles added to the bird music as well. Only the swallow, the bluebird, the hummingbird, and the indigo bunting are lacking to make up our full spring complement of bird life. I also saw the second butterfly of the year. The first was a lonely mourning cloak way back at the end of March. I think he or she somehow hatched too early. But today I saw a red admiral sunning itself in just the spot where I always find them, on the ground between the two barns. It must have been newly emerged, because its wings were perfect and its red and yellow markings were brilliant in the sunlight.
On a slightly different tangent, Argos writes about the color blue here.
I looked at flowers. We still have daffodils, though some are through blooming. Gary has planted hundreds of them all color variations and some early, some late. There are scylla and hyacinths blooming too, and the native dark purple trillium flowers are just starting to open. The four apple trees that are still alive (lost another over the winter) are all in bud just waiting to burst open. The buds are brilliant crimson, but the flowers will be pale pink or white when they open. They will smell wonderful and as soon as their petals are falling the wild cherry will add its own snowfall to the breeze. Lilacs (also on their way) and apple blossoms are the most beautiful flower scents of all, in my opinion. The pear tree is covered with big buds too, but those are snowy white. Peas and strawberries are starting to really grow in the garden, and I need to get more stuff going out there, but not today. There was no egg from the one remaining duck hen we have, but she's been giving us one almost every second day, which is good for such an elderly bird.
I watched rose-breasted grosbeaks and listened to them sing. Brilliantly orange orioles added to the bird music as well. Only the swallow, the bluebird, the hummingbird, and the indigo bunting are lacking to make up our full spring complement of bird life. I also saw the second butterfly of the year. The first was a lonely mourning cloak way back at the end of March. I think he or she somehow hatched too early. But today I saw a red admiral sunning itself in just the spot where I always find them, on the ground between the two barns. It must have been newly emerged, because its wings were perfect and its red and yellow markings were brilliant in the sunlight.
On a slightly different tangent, Argos writes about the color blue here.
