Vine-laced bridge, FW Kent Park, IA

This particular bridge has vines laced through the bottoms of its beams. I'm not sure if this was a natural occurrence or if they were deliberately woven there, but it's lovely to see in any case.

Bridge, FW Kent Park, IA

All of the bridges in FW Kent Park are old county road bridges from a century or so ago, relocated to various locations around the ponds of the park, making for some lovely picturesque crossings.

Algae, FW Kent Park, IA

 Mounding rolls of floating algae. I love to see its texture.

Algae, FW Kent Park, IA

 Thick mats of pond on black reflective pond water.

Pond, FW Kent Park, IA

Pond in one of my favorite county parks, in the spring with the leaves just flowing out.

On guard

Salvatore on guard at the window, watching for intruding bunnies.
 

Aging apple blossoms

 Another view of the aging apple bouquet.

Aging apple blossoms

A bouquet of apple blossoms, at the end of its lifespan.

Fallen apple blossoms

 Drying apple blossoms accumulating in a corner of a slide.

Fallen apple blossoms

 Fallen apple blossoms accumulating at the bottom of a slide.

Skeletons of blossoms

The remnant cores of apple blossoms whose petals have dropped away.

Violets and apple blossoms

 Fallen apple blossoms mixed in with our blooming violets.

Apple blossoms

 Explodingly pink apple blossoms in the spring.

Nest

Birds nest high in the branches of a lilac tree.

Shredded bark

This poor tree looked practically like it was molting. I don't know if this was due to damage from last year's derecho, or some other fate.

Clear Creek trail, Coralville, IA

 The Clear Creek trail in spring, with the trees still bare and the green just starting to fill in on the bottom.

Flower doors

Doors to our library woven shut with artificial flowers.

Life is a stage

Stuffed animals on a vast cardboard stage. In true pandemic-life style, that box once held a bulk quantity of toilet paper.

Hands construction

 An artwork of protruding hands, with the hand of the artist on the left.

Blocking horse

 Due to toddler intervention with a couple red beads, this poor rocking horse can no longer hear.

Cat lunch

 Two toy cats, having lunch together.

Pigs in rings

 Row of Peppa Pig figurines, arranged in play rings on a keyboard.

Salvatore in repose

A very happy cat, fluffed up in repose.

Easter eggs

This year, many of our Easter eggs came out in deep muddy sorts of shades thanks to the high enthusiasm of our toddler, who kept running to take back the finished eggs and pop them in the dye again.

Siberian squill

 These little blue star-shaped flowers, Siberian squill, are one of my favorite spring blossoms.

Fern nearly unrolled

Three weeks later, the ferns have nearly completed their unrolling. 

Emerging fern

Another fern a little farther along, just starting to uncurl.

Emerging fern

 Emerging fiddleheads of one of our garden ferns, tight packed and not yet at all unrolled.

Emerging leaves

 Leaves from one of the plants in our garden, emerging fuzzy and small from underground in spring.

Soaking dal

Yellow dal (lentils), soaking in a bowl overnight before we cook them, most sinking but some floating and pulled together in hexagonal patterns by surface tension.

Crocus

One of our few crocuses this spring. We've been unable to keep them planted, since the squirrels seem to love to dig them up and eat them.