Gotcha, Meadowlark!

The drippy afternoon beckoned me outdoors in spite of itself.

Here is a fallen maple bud displaying its actual magenta color, which is quite lovely, in my opinion. For my daughter's wedding last summer, she chose this exact same color for the bridesmaids' dresses.




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Betsy accompanied me as I wandered around in the yard and down to the mailbox, and out in the field, there to follow after my elusive meadowlark friend.

Betsy said I could post this photo of her despite her wet, dirty, bedraggled appearance. Her foremost concern was that her photo be slimming........I fully understood........that is uppermost in my mind whenever some idiot snaps a picture of me. Will I look fat??!!








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Betsy and I finally were successful in capturing the meadowlark on photo, even though he's not terribly clear.......we were rather far away from him. He's been teasing me for the past couple weeks; singing his distinctive beautiful song from a fencepost by the road, and then flitting off to some far end of the field, way beyond my camera lens' reach.