This week the Outdoor Nature Challenge was to look for signs of Spring! One option was to take a Spring Scavenger Hunt, and that's what we decided to do. Here are the things we saw, felt, heard, and smelled:
Things we saw:
New Spring Leaves
More new leaves
Two different shades of green
Tiny WildFlowers
A taller wildflower (With a bug on it!) Notice how hairy the stem and leaf are!
A weed...or a wildflower. Which would you call it?
A tree with blossoms. This is our Japanese Cherry tree.
A bee
A beetle (Okay, this one wasn't on the list, but we found it while looking for ants!) We did find a few ants as well, but they kept dipping in and out of the grass before my son could get the picture.
Things to feel:
A soft smooth petal (It's nice looking at how petals look up close too!)
Actually, we found a bit more than one flower petal!!
Something warm from the sun
This is our cat, Tiger. He got a little too hot and headed for some shade! (We could completely identify! We were hot in the sun too!)
Something cool in the shade.
Well, Tiger's mostly in the shade anyway! In this photo, he's standing beside our butterfly bush, which will quickly shoot up again before too long. All around Tiger are petals off of our nearby Japanese Cherry tree. The small patches of sunlight on the ground come from the sun peaking through the branches of our Japanese Cherry Tree.
Things we smelled:
The flowers of Red-tipped Photinia smell really nice!
These flowers smelled wonderfully too!
Things we heard:
Birds chirping.
Other things we noticed:
We thought these flower petals were quite interesting!
Last week I posted some photos of our Candytuff plants. They were a Mother's Day gift to me one year! When my family gave them to me, they'd already planted them in our walled garden area. As they've grown, they begun to drape delicately over the wall.
Look how much more the Candytuff flowers have filled out this week! Last week the shape was quite different!
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It sure is spring in your neck of the woods! Look at all those flowers and insects...great job capturing the images. I love candytuft and I have some in pots on my back deck...miss seeing their happy blossoms.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a great job finding lots of signs of spring and I think it is great that you are linking up with the OHC. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wow.... your photographs are beautiful! The beetle is cool too. Spring is here wooo hoo!
ReplyDeleteYes! Some sure signs of spring!!! I would most certainly consider that dandelion a beautiful flower. Our neigbors tend to disagree and spray them with chemicals each year. To our family it's a sure sign that spring is near.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos!!!
Beautiful close up photos of the flowers and blossoms. We are there quite yet.... nice post
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