Blooming Helleborus

Beautiful late Winter early Spring bloomer. MB

A house of a different.......

High School rodeo--Ellensburg, Wa.

High School Rodeo and Junior Rodeo season is starting. Kylee will be there too.
I played around with the color. Kind of cool, huh! MB

I don't care how much snow is on anybodies ground.....

........when the Redwinged Black Bird shows up it means SPRING is just around the corner.
I saw a pair of redwings down at the pond yesterday. They were checking stuff out. The make their nest in the tall reed grass or the cattails but there isn't much there yet. Well I suppose they know what they are doing. Things will be growing soon---I hope.

Pond Motel Rm. # 14

Over the years our pond has been a stop along the flight path of many birds.
This Wood Duck(Aix sponsa) stayed for a day and then off he went. He sure is a beauty. MB

Chicken's ear

Did you know that Chickens have ears. That fuzzy hole where the feathers start is the ear.
A tidbit from my mind full of trivia. But not a trivial mind.

MB

Now a Museum...

.....Once a Carnegie Library.
The Carnegie Library was built in 1909 and became the Anacortes Museum in 1968 and in 1977 was placed on the National register of Historical Places.