a few unexpected visitors...

yesterday was a lovely rainy, stormy day... and a few feathered friends stopped by my little tree outside our apt.

the geese only stayed long enough to let me take a couple pictures and to poop on the sidewalk...

then, i noticed a little green friend on the sidewalk leading up to our apt.

i was amazed at how close he let me get to him to take these pictures...









isn't he gorgeous? i love his gold eyes!
he stayed on my front walk for quite a while... i think he liked the attention i was giving him. he definitely needs a name... something regal and sophisticated... i think i shall call him giovanni. perhaps he's of italian descent. ciao!

a small glimpse of spring in michigan...

i took a few pictures of the tree right outside of our apt. last week. all winter it was bare, and then a few weeks ago, almost over-night, it had the most beautiful pink blooms on it. this past week, the blooms turned into delicate white flowers.

the past few days the wind has blown most of the flowers off the branches... i felt like i was in a fairy-land every time i walked by the tree, white petals swirling around me, landing gracefully in my hair.

sad to say, i didn't get any pictures of it with the white flowers, thinking i still had some time before they would all fall off. last night we had a storm come through, and the wind blew all of the beautiful white blossoms to the ground. my mom said that the blossoms fall off, and then the tree will get berries and new growth. isn't nature amazing? God's creativity constantly overwhelms and inspires me.

the tree with the pink buds on it:

all the white on the ground is petals from the tree:

the tree this morning (with a few white flowers still holding on to the branches after last night's storm):