Caught in the neighbor's garage door!

We were able to free him, thank goodness.

Skip Gibson, Canoe Restorer

Skip Gibson lives near us and restores old canoes. This one he is
practically rebuilding from scratch, as it is so badly damaged. He is
teaching the boy the craft--I unfortunately forgot the boy's name--if
anyone knows, please tell me. The boy is a junior at South. I'm so
glad the old craft is being passed on to the younger generation. Skip
graduated from high school in 1951 if you want to do the math. He's
very interesting and informative and told us a lot about his work.
you can see a video of Skip Gibson on you tube here.

Painting Windows, Ace Hardware

I took this from inside Ace Hardware and never got the girl's name.

Busy busy busy

1)Raising and rehabilitating a baby squirrel ("Eager") (pix 1-3)
2)gardening at two different houses (picture 4 are tulips in rain at
Rolandale--the cottage)
3)hiking out into the woods to see spring wildflowers. Picture 5 is
Dodge Park, showing the trail flooded from too much rain--the Clinto
River is really high!

Dodge Park

Dodge park: there are lots of spring wildflowers--these are wild blue
phlox. The woods are flooded from excess rain. The fungus popping
out on all the trees is Polyporous squamosa.

I am way behind on email and on commenting because I ahve very limited
internet access right now. Hope to catch up at some point.

At Foster Birds Again

Foster Birds is an organization which, during hard times, helps people who have to move into smaller places where they can't have pets etc, but keeping the birds temporarily. Click the Foster Birds link to read more about it. They helped me out by giving me a cage for my
baby squirrel, which I will release back into the wild as soon as it's old enough, in about 5 weeks or so. I enjoyed meeting two of the African Grey parrots that belong to Theresa of Foster Birds. If you haven't already seen the other one and want to, click here or simply go to yesterdya's post.

At Foster Parrots

I went to Foster Parrots yesterday to get a bird cage for a squirrel I
am rehabilitating. I may tell you more about it tomorrow if I have
time.

Gerber Daisies at Village Market

More signs of Spring!

At the Black River

Bluffs Overlook from below showing Black River, bloodroot, fiddlehad,
trout lily.

Shadows Around me--May Theme Day

May Theme Day: Shadows in Detroit!

1. Foot Shadows at Cranbrook (sculpture--see swan on Cranbrook Lake)
   
2. Us, in shadow, holding hands, on one of the trails at Belle Ialse, along Nashua Creek
3. Starry False Solomon's Seal
4. Cedars in the neighborhood
5. Along the boardwalk at Kensington
6. New Oak Leaves
7. Spring Sunshine (dandelion)

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