Photographs from a Bloy in Wisconsin
At last, a concrete sign of spring! Although when I see these tiny, first blossoms of the year, it seems to me that Mother Nature is tentatively testing the change of season. As if she’s saying, “Let’s see how these small flowers do before I commit to anything bigger.”
Well look at that. The perennials in front of my house are starting to poke through last year’s mulch.
Finally! Spring is beginning in Wisconsin.
Getting photos of raindrops isn’t that hard. You just have to wait until they land on something.
That weed & feed I put on my lawn certainly seems to have done a good job feeding the weeds.
The other day I discovered a grasshopper hanging out on my clematis plant.
He was trying to get some sun, but once he caught me looking over his shoulder, he got a little anxious and started moving around.
Rainy days bring their own unique beauty to nature. Like these rain drops I discovered hanging from pine tree needles.
I saw one of the weirdest creatures while hiking last week. At first I thought I saw a small pine cone moving along the forest floor. A closer look revealed this spider, about a 2/3 of an inch in size.
The combination of that pine-cone-like abdomen, the eight legs sticking out, and those freaky multiple eyes… I’m surprised I haven’t had spider nightmares.
Update: I think this is probably a a female wolf spider with spiderlings on her back (see comments below). I still like the “pine cone spider” name I gave it though.
Another example of nature’s beauty at Olbrich Gardens: a monarch butterfly feeding on flower nectar.
