Happy Easter Flower Friday

Welcome to Nature Friday where we get to meet new friends and share a picture or two of what nature looks like around Blogville. Spring is blooming so fast here in our corner of Blogville that Mama had to take another trip back out to the Botanical Garden to make sure she didn't miss any blooms!

She was glad she made the trip, color was blooming everywhere!!

It seems like the Wisteria bloomed overnight! It's purple-y beauty covered this trellis. 

Again we wish we had smell-a-vision because Mama says the smell was divine!

The tulips are blooming too, Mama found a pretty yellow tulip

Here is a top view...

....along with  a top view of some pretty pink tulips. 

Bunches of trees and bushes are blooming too!

This white cherry tree has bunches of blooms.

Mama thinks this is a type of Redbud tree. She and I both love the vibrant pink buds!

These Japanese Cherry trees with thier poofy blooms bring back all kind of memories for Mama as they used to line the streets of her hometown in New Jersey.

Here are some Crab Apple blooms from a Botanical Garden.

(Next Friday we'll show you some pink blooms from MY backyard!)

We'll wrap things up this week with this blooming Desert Holly. They kinda look like micro daffodils don't you think??

Thanks so much for joining us for our week of Spring fun! We hope you enjoyed seeing a little of what is blooming here in the high desert of New Mexico.

We are wishing everyone who celebrates a very Happy Easter and Passover weekend.  As always, we hope all of our friends get to experience some nature this weekend!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful for Good Conversations

 

Today I am thankful for productive conversations.

Last week we were hanging out in ArCee while Mama got some "RV Stuff" done.  I was sitting on the big bed, keeping an eye on my backyard, when I had a visitor. A Gambel's Quail hopped up on the fence to talk!

We had a nice conversation at first, commenting on the nice weather and other small talk. Then, things went south when he tried to tell me it was nice that I could visit HIS backyard!

The discussion may have gotten a bit heated as I let him know it was MY backyard.....

He even tried calling for back up! 

Listen for yourself:

Of course, Sunny added her two cents too!

I really am thankful to have new friends to talk to

...in MY backyard!

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop

Backyard Easter Bunnies!

With Easter coming up on Sunday, we thought we would take a look at the Easter Bunny (or maybe bunnies) fueling up for the big day:

Did you see that bunny beat down?? 

They must have been the Easter bunny finalists!

This is the Flowering Almond bush in the backyard. The bunnies used to like hiding underneath it. Well, until Rosy and I found them and chased them away BOL!

Have you spotted any Easter bunnies in your yard yet???

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop this week!

Happiness is.....

 FLUTTERBY SEASON!!!

That's right,  not only is the infamous Sunny-bee been sighted, but other flutterbies have been see both in the backyard and on Mama's recent Botanical Garden visit!

Lilacs at the Botanical Garden are also blooming, this big lilac bush attracted lots of flutterbies, including this Painted Lady Butterfly!

She also shot this short video:

It was nice of her to turn around for Mama, don't you think??

Flutterbies sure make Mama happy....and a happy Mama gives out more cookies, right?

Needless to say, flutterbies make us happy too!

We are joining Sandee at Comedy Plus for the 

Happy Tuesday Blog Hop this week!

Springtime Aaaws

Easter is right around the corner and Spring in full swing here in the high desert. To celebrate, we have a bunch of Springtime fun in store this week!

 Today, in addition to cute Sunny Aaaws....

We have some Lilac aaaws....

We sure wish we had smell-a-vision, because the backyard smells SO good!!!

....and, of course, let's not forget some adorable Rosy aaaws too!!

We're also joining Comedy Plus for the 

Awww Monday Blog Hop!

Cactus Cutie on NFFF

 

Welcome to the wonderful Friday each month where Nature Friday comes together with YAM Aunty's FFF!!  Make sure to visit YAM Aunty HERE to get the Rulez and join the FFF fun!! 

 

Today, we are looking at some of the Cacti found in the ABQ Botanical Gardens! It is amazing how well most cactus grow here in the dry high desert climate!

Although I do know better than to touch them, I think the barrel cactus is pretty cool looking....

Here is one of the bigger barrel cacti

Mama likes this cool cactus that is growing out of control. 

These specialized cacti are kept in a big terrarium so they can keep them warm in the wintertime.

We see these everywhere when we drive through Arizona, they are the Seguaro Cacti, usually they have "arms" sticking out.  

They also have this cool looking flower cactus...well, Mama says it's a succulent.

This is a Rosa de Pedra, or Rose of Stone, succulent plant.

It's such a pretty color, don't you think?? I think this might be my most favorite cactus, flower, succulent plant!

Thanks for joining us for a look at some of the Cacti found at the ABQ Botanical Garden!!

We hope all our friends get out and see some nature this weekend!!

Show us your nature! It can be flowers, your current weather, a scene out of your window, or maybe a picture from a vacation, walk or other journey! Any kind of nature picture will do! If you don't see a link below, click HERE  to go to our Hoppity Page.

Thankful for a Fun Weekend with Nanny K!

Today we want to say how thankful we are 

that the pawrents found us a new, pawesome nanny to play with while they go away. As we mentioned last week, Nanny K came for a sleepover while the pawrents went camping last weekend. What fun we had! First and foremost, Nanny K took as many photos of us as Mama does (Nanny K took all the photos in this post) and she sent them over to Mama and Daddy so they knew we were doing ok!

There was a lot of playing. Here I, Sunny, am having a blast playing tuggy with Nanny K.

Since it was so nice outside, we spent time playing while Nanny K. watched.

We made sure to check on her and make sure she was enjoying her outside time too!

Of course there was snuggle time too, here I am getting snuggles.

[Just a note that I was MOSTLY well behaved while the pawrents were gone, but I did get a bit bossy with Rosy and had to go to my room for a bit. Mama was very pleased that Nanny K handled the situation so well. ]

We think we are going to be just fine with Nanny K while the pawrents head over the big pond to Italy. 

She may be the best sitter we have had so far!!

Thank you to Maxwell and Angel Brian for hosting the

Thankful Thursday Blog Hop