Zephyr was named in 1865 after the Greek “zephyros” which means “the west wind whose breezes help produce fruit and flowers.”
From a front yard:
I also explored more of the Holland River Wetland Trail:
Some Botany:
Birds that I heard include Belted Kingfisher, Purple Finch and Ruffed Grouse.
I was able to photograph these:
NATURE POETRY
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins. – Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
Miles Hearn