On top of the world! That's what it feels like! The flowers are just beginning to bloom and we can hardly believe how much we see every time we visit Arabia Mountain. The diamorpha (the red stuff) is growing more and more. The chance for rain was 100% for Saturday...did that stop us from our mountain? NO WAY!
Can you see those delicate white flowers just beginning to bloom? They remind me of snow-in-summer, the flowers that I love so much when I am in England!
This was at the base of the second mountain over, the one I call the "Quarried Mountain"... we stopped here to have our coffee. We had a bluebird singing for us as the turkey vultures circled overhead and rode the thermals...
Can you imagine how nice that shade feels on a sunny day after a brisk walk? The green of the moss was just...oh so lovely, I wanted to lie down in it!
As we were sitting on the rock, this moth (I think it is a moth) fluttered down right in front of me! Can you tell that the wings underneath have not come completely out yet? Also, the right wing is still curled up... Do you think that I started singing "Spread your tiny wings and fly away"? You know that I did! Can anyone tell me if this is a moth and the name of it? Those orange spots were lovely and the antennae and legs were the color of wheat...
Okay, now I really got down on my knees to photograph these flowers...I love this color!
This is at the top of the mountain next to Arabia. At first, all I could see was the rocks but now I see how life is coming back to it...
This is on an Eastern Red Cedar tree, the tree right next to didn't have these blue berries but instead had brownish sort of seeds...after reading about it, the blue is the female and the brown is the male. Not a true cedar, according to my sources, but really a juniper tree. Apparently, birds like to eat those berries and so we need to give our thanks to birds for all these Eastern Red Cedars that we see which are called cedars but are not really cedars. Understand all that? Good, now explain it to me!
Oh, and that rain? It held off until the late afternoon, so we were able to spend hours on the mountain! 100 % GRATEFUL!
