After the Rain

Loropetalum

It's Azalea Time

Up, Up and Away

William flying a kite over grandpa's house.

Watch out for those kite eating trees.

Ethan takes a turn. Moments later he lets go and away goes the kite. It ends up in a tree in another neighborhood but luckily the string breaks and the kite floats to the ground.

Meditation

Ethan enjoying the hypnotic effect of the ocean.

At the Beach

with William and Ethan

Concentration

Ethan totally absorbed in Thomas the Train.

Easter - baskets, eggs and a cross

Ethan checking out the Easter Basket.

William finds another plastic egg.

William and Ethan adding flowers to the "Living Cross".

Daffodils

"Daffodils that come before the swallow dares,
and takes the winds of March with beauty."

William Shakespeare

Happy St. Patrick's Day

and a bloom on the shamrocks by golly

Another Sign of Spring

The Bradford pear trees are white with blossoms.

Pine Pollen Season

Why is everyone driving a yellow car?
These male "pollen cones" are releasing pollen that is carried by the wind to the female cones which will become the commonly recognized pine cones.

Car Show

This weekend is the 20th annual Pee Dee Street Rodders' Run to the Sun car show. I couldn't help but think of how many dollars and man-hours were represented by the hundreds of cars assembled in the parking lot of the Hard Rock Theme Park.

Green on Green

Green Anole in a pine tree.

Forsythia

Drawing Time

Ethan and William

Fish Bowl

Ethan and a Siamese fighting fish.

Peek-a-boo

It's Ethan!

Covering the Zeppelin

A fabric covering is being added to the zeppelin frame of the Led Zeppelin, the signature roller coaster at the new Hard Rock Theme Park.

Friends on a Log

Cormorant and a turtle

Cormorants

A pair of immature Cormorants are distinguished by their pale throat and chest.


Running on water takeoff ...

Pondering

Jack daydreaming about pirates.