Photos of the Month: May

I think I'm going to have to start doing a weekly photo post, because I had so many pictures from May that I wanted to share, that they wouldn't all fit into just a couple of posts.
     For the monthly highlights, I managed to select a small handful to share, but there will likely be more getting posted on here in the next several days, so keep an eye out!
      First, I should say that back on May 24, our batch of chicks for the year arrived.

I've also had a broody hen since the beginning of May, and on the morning of the 26th, she hatched a little yellow fuzz ball.  Unfortunately, the chick disappeared in the evening of the 27th - we think it may have been taken by a raven.

But then, sometime between May 30th and May 31st, she hatched two more chicks.  These ones are both mostly black, except that one has a white chin and the other has a little yellow spot on his head.  I don't have any great pictures of them yet, but so far they are still doing well!

Now I have to back up to May the 5th.  The young maple leaves looked really pretty against the sky - especially with the sun in the background like that.

Then on May 11th, during a morning "plum-tree photo session" with my sister, we found this small spiderweb in the grass, still dotted with tiny droplets of dew.

Finally, on May 12th, the plum tree was in full bloom and I probably took a hundred pictures of it, from quite a few  different angles.  I was especially pleased with the outcome of the silhouette.

(If you look closely at this picture, you can see a moth perched on one of the blossoms.)
     There is a never-ending abundance of beauty in God's creation to photograph, and I'm always so thankful to be able to see all these things!