Shoulder Month

 

Just the slightest hint that spring is around the corner. March is one of those "shoulder months" here on the Middle Peninsula, when afternoon temperatures can range anywhere from the upper 60s and low 70s to the upper 40s and low 50s. Today, for instance, we're expecting a high of 55. Not quite as pleasant as last Wednesday when I snapped this picture and when the afternoon high was nearly 76. 

Welcome to spring! 

Updated 3/21/2024

The Dafs are Back

 

Lock

 

Love these reproductions of colonial-era locks.

Red Mulberry

 

Red mulberry, "is a species of mulberry native to eastern and central North America. It is found from Ontario, Minnesota, and Vermont south to southern Florida, and west as far as southeastern South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and central Texas. There have been reports of isolated populations (very likely naturalized) in New Mexico, Idaho, and British Columbia.

Common in the United States, it is listed as an endangered species in Canada, and is susceptible to hybridization with the invasive white mulberry (M. alba), introduced from Asia." -- Wikipedia

Sparrow

 

Linking again today with Skywatch Friday

Sheep

 Colonial Williamsburg's Leicester Longwool Sheep

Calf

 

Since image editing has become such a "thing" lately, thanks to a photograph posted by Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Windsor, I thought I might just note that none of my images have been altered other than some cropping and adjustments for light. Once in awhile, but rarely, I might retouch an image that's shows some flaring or other distracting feature. Otherwise, I prefer leaving the images as they were when I took the photograph, for good or ill.