A really lovely morning of 24 degrees and sunshine.

Don River views:

Lots of wildflowers out today:

Species list: mallard, turkey vulture, killdeer, black-billed cuckoo, belted kingfisher, downy woodpecker, tree swallow, rough-winged swallow, cliff swallow, barn swallow, gray catbird, American robin, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, red-winged blackbird, Baltimore oriole, northern cardinal, indigo bunting, house finch, American goldfinch, song sparrow.  (23 species)

This morning’s group:

NATURE POETRY

My Cathedral
LIKE two cathedral towers these stately pines
Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones;
The arch beneath them is not built with stones,
Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines,
And carved this graceful arabesque of vines;	5
No organ but the wind here sighs and moans,
No sepulchre conceals a martyr’s bones,
No marble bishop on his tomb reclines.
Enter! the pavement, carpeted with leaves,
Gives back a softened echo to thy tread!	10
Listen! the choir is singing; all the birds,
In leafy galleries beneath the eaves,
Are singing! listen, ere the sound be fled,
And learn there may be worship without words. – Longfellow

Miles Hearn