Surprise, Suprise

Since we bought our house in the winter, we didn't get a chance to see what all we had as far as plants. This spring was exciting. We have two lilac bushes, but they didn't bloom so well this year so I will have to look into that.

This was just a stump with no sign of life. It really shot up, though we still don't know what it is.

During the snow storms earlier this year we had quite a few branches fall. We cut them up and stashed them under the deck.

I was out mowing the back when this thing flew up at me. Poor thing got whacked by the lawn mower. If it was poisonous I wouldn't have minded, but since it was a guarder snake, I felt a little bad about it.