We opened windows for the first time yesterday. Great weather is really here, it seems. And with windows open, heard howling coyotes a few times in the night. What a sound! Were they inspired by the moon almost full?
We see deer now every day. They're a lot more cooperative than the elk staying still so I can get a picture. Keeping eyes peeled for signs of newly awake bear - nothing yet. Mark smoked salmon from last Oct (the ones that the hatchery was giving away - bouncing around in big paperbags) with his new smoker. That should have gotten a bear's attention if he/she were awake I think. We had a great meal - smoked salmon with cilantro, garlic, and olive oil/butter pasta. Yummm...
The flower photo is larkspur. They're just popping out everywhere, and these are the plants that keep the cattle ranchers from putting their cattle in Star Mt. until mid-July. Very poisonous to livestock, but so pretty.
The race is on. The hummingbirds are very active & there are a quite a few. I'm boiling sugar water once a day, and Mark is filling the feeders once a day also. This will get us in the routine for the peak (3 times a day and mountains of sugar).
Your posts are this surreal breath of fresh air. As BP ruins our world as we know it, jobs and homes are scarce and fear permiates our ability to live with joy. We live with the history of the great depression and wonder how we will live out our old age. All we worked for is diminished to the extent we wonder what will become of us. Truly, the saddest of times. Your nature photos and the hope you create, keeps us in belief that there is something bigger and better than us.
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