A celebration! I have Mallards swimming and feeding in my stream!

Lovely ducks good that theres something for you to look at in that cold looking scene Lori.

Exciting! We once had a duck take a rest on our pond. Has never happened again, so to have two taking residence in your stream must be great.

Oh Lori I do feel for you, all that cold and flooding and still not quite Spring! But it must be close for you if the ducks have arrived looking for a nesting spot. Perhaps you could build them a duck house, either on a pole or off the ground and a bit sheltered from a marauding Red Hawk. When you study them they are really stunning, almost as exotic as any Amazon jungle bird! Best of luck with them and the weather. Ajuga is a tough beast and will soon spring into flower and brighten your days.

That's grand Lori - I do like ducks! A duck house is a good idea. But it still looks so very cold - you've suffered a long hard winter so its grand so see a few bulbs flowering at last!

That's fantastic Lori they have chosen you place to come to I would find that a compliment lovely iris too a lovely sight after all your weather.

so pleased that you have a pair that is scouting out a nesting site. Ajuga is a lovely ground cover plant I have a pink flowered one too.
smashing to see a crocus all mine are well and truly over.
Hope the weather warms up a bit sooner than later for you Lori.

Lori its so good to see that spring is arriving at long last for you, I appreciate how cold your poor fingers must have been but so worth it to see a bit of colour instead of a blanket of snow, can see you are getting somewhere recovering your stream, all that hard work is paying off, to see the ducks checking it over must have been a delight for you, fingers crossed the Red Hawk doesn't spot them but guess nature will have its way, lovely to see them Lori, you take care now and keep smiling, you will be out enjoying it all before you know it...

I'm so looking forward to May... and here it is and can you imagine how it feels to see a long range forecast that says May is going to be as cold as April was... Argghhh! In the past month we had only one (ONE) day of balmy warmth. It's barely above zero at night and will continue like that for the next two weeks apparentlly. My hub maintains that with all the carbon that went into the atmosphere last year from all the fires in the west and the volcanoes all over the world that we will be a repeat of 1816 ... no summer at all!

I hope the ducks will be left alone, nice that you have them in your garden. I hope the weather improves for you soon.

Thank you to all my GoY friends for the moral support!
No sooner said...than done! LOL...Everyone, I don't know where it came from (given the dire forecasts) but we're supposed to have 4 days of warmth. I was out today splitting up the overgrown clumps of irises and digging new beds by the stream to plant them in. It was hot enough for me to work in short sleeves and I was still perspiring! How odd it all is... next week is going to be back to cold temps again. Hope my irises will flourish. fingers crossed.