Welcome, Carol Hunter!

Remember my old "What is it?" blog posts? This might have been a good photo for that.

It's a yellow pond lily flower, shot at the cabin this weekend. These are a few of my favorite photos from our holiday weekend. I was prompted to post a few by my good friend Carol, who says she feels like a loser because she keeps checking back and I haven't updated the blog. (Does she know I check her non-updated blog, too? Does that make ME a loser?)

Anyway, the weather in the U-P was August-like. 90-degrees on both Saturday and Sunday. Our lake temperature was 76-degrees! Paul made his annual Memorial Day jump in the lake (I watched), and he said it felt like bath water! In May!
I was happy to find a few more ladyslippers near the dock this year. I'm hoping they'll stick around and continue to spread out each year.
And I found a few of these tiny orchids near the shore. One of my plant identifier books says it's called a Dragon's Tongue orchid. I've never noticed them on our bog before, but hope we get more next year! I lucked out and caught some sort of grasshopper in the shot, too! Can you see it?

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend! I'll post again (probably with soccer shots...tournament season is coming soon!).

May Snowfall

We went the entire month of April without snow, a first for the area. But yesterday afternoon, one last blast of winter blew through (I hope it's the last blast), leaving about 3 inches of heavy wet snow on the ground this morning. I saw bent and broken tree branches all over town, along with lots of frozen flowers.
Mason had a soccer "jamboree" today. He was supposed to play two short "exhibition" games. He played the first (many of the kids were wearing shorts!), but the coaches called the second one shortly after they started trying to shovel the field.