Friday Photo Dump

This is going to be a literal photo post.  I had over 50 pictures I wanted to share, but I managed to narrow them down to just 18, so maybe I'll be able to fit all of them in two posts, after all!
      First photos.  The left one is from May 5th.  I thought the fence looked neat with the straight row of young maple trees right alongside it.
     The top right picture is a sunset from May 12.  The one right beneath it is also from May 12, but a bit earlier in the day.  The sun was shining right through the branches of the fully-blossomed plum tree.

These next photos are all from May 12th as well.  The last few I took of the plum tree; plus a picture of my dad finishing seeding the field for the day (in the foreground you can see some of the asparagus growing).

These next four are all from May 18th.
#1 (top left): Maple leaves growing off of the base of one of the young trees.  I loved the shade of red.
#2 (top right): Looking straight up into the big maple tree.  Somewhere in those branches is one of my favourite places to sit and read.
#3 (bottom left and right): We think this little bumblebee accidentally got locked in the cooler with the asparagus.  If that's correct, then she was in there all night until she was brought out the next morning.  She was very weak even after sitting in the sun for a while, and although I did my best to save her, she died later that afternoon.

The picture directly beneath this, was of the sun.  It was super smoky that day (May 19) and cloudy besides, and the sun looked interesting.

These two pictures are both from May 23.  Left: The field, seeded and rolled.  Right: Apple blossoms

And these last three pictures are all from the 25th.  Left: The killdeer.  Every year a pair of killdeer make their nest somewhere on our land, and every year we carefully look for the nest so we can work around it without destroying the eggs.  This year the two of them made their nest in the middle of a row of one of the asparagus plots.  A few days after I found it, I was walking down that row picking the asparagus, and Mama didn't like me that close to her nest.
     Right: After she reluctantly scooted away from me, I snapped a quick picture of the eggs and moved on so she would get back on the nest.

And finally, this is a picture I took of the flowers my mom planted in her hanging basket.  I like the angle of this shot, with the chain coming down along the side of the frame that way.