Backyard Update &The Woodies are Back

It's become another rite of spring... The Woodhouse's Toad A.K.A. the Rocky Mountain Toad made his presence know last night at exactly 9:33.  It won't be long and there will be a chorus of toads singing their screechy song. I posted their mating call HERE along with the leopard frog... all for you listening pleasure.

In fact, pretty much all the posts made in May of 2011 were about the toads, if you care to take a look you can navigate there using the archive on the left margin of this blog.

Around the yard;

The ash tree in on the left, centered is the pear tree.

• the ash tree finally has it's leaves out and is looking good. 
• The chives are in fact, tasty. 
• Lots of seed pods are finding their way into the pond and have clogged the skimmer and filter for 2 days straight. 
• Most of our pots in the yard now have their annual plants making more color. 
• The 3 fish living in the bridge pond have made appearances every day for the last 3 days... haven't see all three since last year.
• Ginger put an orange out in hopes of attracting a oriole to stop by... we now know that the house finches love oranges. 
• It is supposed to rain... that would be nice.

Two of the pots now sport'n flowers.

The same pots shown above but from the opposite side... I just liked this picture.

Our first iris bloom... more on the way.

I am told this plant is a canna lily and it will have very pretty flowers... we hope.

Our second canna lily that will have a different colored flower.
That's grass on the right. These plants live in Joe's pond.

How about those lily pads... growing like crazy :)

In case anyone has any doubt... this is an (orange) gold fish.

Snow balls in the spring.

If I may direct your attention to the base of this pussy willow. The root ball is wrapped around big rocks to hold
it in place. This was started from a couple of cuttings. I think this is it's 3rd season. 

Whoohoo!!!