Absolutely beautiful day!

I am feeling so blessed today!  The weather is gorgeous.  I have the windows open, and the curtains are blowing gently on the breeze.  The birds are all chirping merrily as they go about their business.  I can hear the neighbor's animals making their sounds.  There are people doing their weekend chores outside, making all kinds of wonderful sounds.  

My children were so excited today.  They have new friends that live just down the road from us.  The woke this morning, finished their chores quickly, and happily ran out the door to go have fun.  They are sure to have great adventures today, with the temperatures so nice and the sun so brightly shining!  They've been so blessed to have these new friends.  They have not had friends in our area for quite some time.  The children are either very young, or are young adults, or they are troublemakers.  It's nice they have some very nice, polite kids to hangout with now.  

Last night was wonderful too, as I had the windows open quite late.  The cool breeze was so lovely.  The night sounds out here are so fantastic to listen to.  You can hear all the nocturnal animals starting to move around, calling out to others, etc. You can hear both the frogs near the ponds, and the tree frogs, all making their various chirping and croaking noises.  We have owls out here too, and they make such fascinating sounds.  

Here's a picture of one of our tree frogs, a bit displaced from his normal habitat.  My daughter helped get him back to a more suitable place.

 Here is a picture of the bottom part of our property, during a previous spring or early summer.

A beauty my daughter found after last winter, blooming under one of our trees.