The grass is a vibrant green carpet this time of year. The cherry-plum is blooming, as well as miner’s lettuce and burmuda buttercup (the last is an invasive). Other flowers are just starting (redbud, early yarrow, early poppies).

Creatures we saw:

• acorn woodpeckers
• scrub jays
• turkeys
• hawk on nest
• pipevine swallowtails
• fence lizards
• small fish
• frog
• deer
• killdeer
• otter
• goldeneye
• swallows
• vultures
• doves
• black phoebe