Some things in life are so fragile and fleeting, yet are the means for life to go on.
Dandelion fluff is like that, isn’t it? As a child, you could pluck a golden dandelion turned white and wispy and blow all its seeds away. You could even wish upon a dandelion, couldn’t you? Well, of course you still can! That is, if you let the dandelions grow in your grass or go somewhere where they do flourish! No one minds if you pick dandelions!
I designed this print some time ago. Is it sad to you? Or a promise that things will change and, likely, get better?
Mr. Snake popped up among the trout lilies and we had a standoff!
It’s only mid-April and I’ve already had two run-ins with snakes! You’d think I’d know one snake from another, but I had to look it up and decide if it was a ribbon snake or a common garden snake. I pretty much assume snakes I run into in Michigan woods are garter snakes, but I am never sure until I compare the photo to a guidebook!
Apparently, the red tongue with black tip makes it a common garter snake, although the source didn’t describe other tongues.
Close cropping from other snake photo
I set the camera on fast-continuous to try to capture the tongue sticking out at me. Every time I’d pull my eye away from the camera, the snake would stick its tongue out again and I would miss it! I wish photo was a little sharper, but you can see the veins(?) in the tongue very well.
You can tell I know a lot more about flowers than snakes. 
Someone just bought one of my favorite postage stamps – thank you and enjoy!
These delicate wild anemones are amazing flowers. They are blooming here in northern Michigan on some property I own in the woods. There’s an opening between the trees put in by the power company. Before it all fills up with poison ivy in the summer, the anemones come out of nowhere and shoot up these fragile blooms.
They somehow are hardy enough to last through a rainstorm, though! I love them!
