Spring Heralds at Halibut Point

Song sparrow

Boundary diplomacy and  love songs fill the air, as immense and powerful as the earth is tiny and delicate.

Cowbird

Trout lily

Woodland flowers bloom before tree leaves close off the sunlight.

Arrowhead violet

Red columbine

A butterfly flutters by.

Mourning cloak

Juvenile orchard oriole

A young oriole has found his way back north.  A chickadee has endured the winter.

Chickadee

Goldfinch in apple tree

Newness freshens the world. Birds and flowers sustain each other. Morning light favors all the busyness.