After planting 60 geraniums (yup, I counted them) in various planters around the house and another installment of creeping phlox, plus mowing the lawn behind the old pusher, it was good to get out to Lime Creek this morning and admire someone else's handiwork.
I was extra careful on the trails, however, conscious of the fact that the Rev. Patty Aurand, pastor of First (UCC) Church in Mason City, took a nosedive out here on the trails Sunday afternoon --- and broke an elbow. Ouch. Don't want to do that.
These photos were taken on the Old Stage Run in the north central part of the nature center and if I could find my wildflower identification guide, which is in Chariton, or perhaps in Mason City or maybe somewhere in between --- wherever it is I can't find it --- I'd tell you what these drifts of little white flowers (closeup below) are.
Common woodland violet and jack-in-the-pulpit (one of my favorites) are below.
A wildlife photographer I'm not --- way too cheap to buy the camera with the lense I'd need to do justice to the following far-off glimpses of a scarlet tanager and browsing deer. But both the deer and the bird brightened my morning walk.
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