There are the flutterbyes flying. (Please click to enlarge)
Bees buzzin, flowers bloomin.
The Holler hummers,
are happy we’re home!
The drought has broken and the rain is falling.
Hawks are courting,
and looking for nests!
Where ever we roam, there’s no place like home!
And cheers to you from all the Holler happy critters, including us~
I like your photos Cindy,thanks for sharing.
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
Nice critters to come home to. As the snow geese and sandhill cranes are leaving, I’m starting to see a larger variety of birds. We won’t see hummingbirds until the end of May.
As you know I am partial to our feathered friends! Love them all~
Such beautiful photos. 😀
Mil grazi & cheers to you!
Such a kind comment!
Well, I mean it – it is so brown and white here with the horrible single digit winter that seeing your colors and brightness is like a breath of fresh air – an oasis in a desert. Thank you.
Beautiful…So beautiful captures..! I miss summer sigh 🙂
Spring is just around the corner, so hold on……..
Someone go out and rush it lol
Such beautiful winged creatures, big and small!
😀
Wouldn’t you like to fly Hari???
Yes, of course, I’d love to!
I might just conquer my fear of height by flying around the world! 😀
What beautiful butterflies to welcome you back home. Fantastic photos as always too 🙂
It is the largest tiger swallowtail I have ever seen. I was amazed…….
Beautiful pic
Mil grazi~
That’s a real homecoming! Beautiful photographs!
Very kind & very appreciated~
What keen and piercing eyes this hawk has; a spectacular photo, Cindy.
So happy you think so! Cheers to you~
the hawks and raptors are my favorites.
they don’t trust us. for good reason.
but living with them, they get curious,
they want to look closer at this odd creature that is always taking their photos, so they come closer.
as much as they can tolerate me, they do.
they must know how much i respect them.
i know you do too.
you could come out here and hang out with the hawks.
Yes, that would be lovely. They are a beautiful bird. We have them here in Indiana too, many smaller red shoulder hawks, but some red tail too. They sit high up in a near by walnut tree, and while there the hens stay in the covering of their run. I think and hope these city hawks prefer a smaller bird than my girls. 😉
Thank you for the amazing photos. They are all beautiful.
So wonderful to hear from you my friend!
A beautiful site to see for us winter bogged folks!
Oh good!! Spring is coming!!!!
Welcome home! Your travels looked wonderful, trust you had a great time, but are pleased to be home.
Yes, it is always good to return, but I am so adjusted to travel now, that I start getting antsy after two months or so~
I am just the opposite. I had to travel so much for work, that I dread the mere thought of getting on another airplane. But we do make trips about every 3-4 months, the last was to Las Vegas, the next to Utah.
Yes work travel definitely does not count. I used to have nightmares about being sent to even more distant places when I worked forcing separation from my children. Work travel isn’t travel in my book……completely different experience.
Cindy, welcome home. I love all your pictures of your critters. You live in such a lovely place. V.
How lovely of your to say & cheers to you my friend!
Facing another 24 hours of increasing arctic cold here in Ontario it is like a breath of spring to see beautiful birds, bees and flowers. Thank you!
Awwwww. So glad! Stay warm and try to remember how uyour spring and summer will be~
Seems they were anticipating your return and that’s a grand welcome home!
I swear it feels like that! The hawks fly low to say hello, and the hummingbirds hover to do the same~
Great photos & the close-up of the hawk – WOW!
I am enthralled by raptors, so I am glad you liked!
You take amazing photos and they are so fun to look at.
Well this is the sort of comment that makes blogging so worthwhile!
🙂
It looks like these beautiful birds missed you… Don’t who takes bird photos like you do!
Awwww. So appreciated! I love them, as you know~
Wowzers!!!! How do you do that?! So nice
Laughing, actually you are so nice to say this!
Your hummingbirds were waiting for you. 🙂 Thanks for sharing your vivid homecoming!
I think they were! Cheers to you~
I hope you enjoy your homecoming. 🙂
Thank you my friend and hope all is well with you!
Thank you sharing the wonder of life with such beauty and depth, Cindy.
Beautiful!
Mil grazi~
Thankfully you’re getting some rain.
Oh it has been awful! Lots of the orchards around us are dead. Today we are well over 3 inches and it’s still coming thank God!
gorgeous shots all around, especially the birds. I’m envious … still waiting for the hummingbirds to show up at my feeders!!
Hope they do soon, some red food dye in the beginning helps attract them~
they (the Anna’s hummingbirds) do come and visit, but they have been ignoring the red sugar water. 🙂 The chickadees are getting more use out of it!
plus they have been giving the cold shoulder to the bright plastic flowers on the new hummingbird feeder we bought a month ago. 🙂
we’re going to start planting flowers to entice them to come.
you have a massive flock of them around your feeder!!!
Liebe Cindy eine super Blume mit einer Biene sei ganz lieb gegrüßt Klaus und einen schönen Abend Klaus
Sie sind ein wunderbarer Freund Klaus!
Danke dir liebe Cindy für deine so lieben Worte einen schönen Montag wünsche ich dir in Freundschaft Klaus
Beautiful pics, Cindy. How are y’all doing with the rain in your area? Is any of that really bad weather near you? We just got another 3in of white last night…, oh, well !!! Welcome home.
Thank you cuz, we are well over three inches at this time and still falling. No problems here so far. It is a huge relief as it was killing trees and wildlife and was quite depressing!
Welcome home to the land of milk and honey. Love the hummers, always!
Now that we have rain, it is like the land of milk and honey again!
Welcome home … from the flutterbyes, the bees, holler hummers, the hawk. And me. 🙂
What a perfect welcome!! Cheers to you~
Happy to hear there’s rain.
You have no idea how happy we are…….
Such vivid colours, Cindy. Wow.
Garzi……Natures glories here for us everyday…….
Just goes to show, you were missed! As usual, these are awesome photos, Cindy! I’m going to have to hit the dictionary and come up with some new descriptive words. I always look forward to your posts! 🙂
Awww….your last sentence is eloquent and so appreciated~
I bet it feels good to be back home! I love your pics on the Holler!! The Hawks are fantastic! I would love to see them up close! I adore your other pics too! Gorgeous! Hugz and welcome back home! Hugz Lisa and Bear
awesome…sunds like spring is on its way for you…
Yes, winter never really arrived~
Very nice pictures of these home welcoming friends. The hawks look a bit intimidating, just a little 🙂
Awwww……they look out for me!
You are a phenomenal photographer, Cindy!
You are exceptionally kind and your Japanese survivor posts are simply phenomonal. Bravo!
Beautiful, Cindy! Welcome home.
Good to back to the RAIN!!!!
Home again, home again! You must live in California?
I love traveling, but like you, I am always happy to return home.
Yep born and raised, can’t seen to permanently leave the state! It’s home……
Hi. As always, truly excellent shots of birds ‘n’ butterflies (from an inveterate bird watcher)! Delicious. And thank you so much for “liking” so much of what we’re doing. D & S
Your pieces are phenomonal works of art. It is impossible not to appreciate them!
Welcome home and love seeing these gorgeous shots.
Makes me happy ma deah!
Happy to see you are home safely. Welcome back.
So happy to bring you your beautiful Puerto Rico my friend~
Welcome home!!!
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Quote TS and I will follow you anywhere……actually I will follow you anywhere anyway!
Same here!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Wonderful captures!
Merci mon ami~
With cold weather and snow in the forecast, the flower and hummingbird pictures are a nice reminder that someday it will again be summer. 🙂
It’s coming, spring is around the corner!! Cheers to you and thank you too~
Splendid post Cindy.Jalal
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
My Gosh Cindy do you ever tire of being that freaking great!! That first picture is out of this frigging world! I don’t think I truly knew what colors we’re til I started following your blog! Once again, you’ve left me in awe of your talent!! Can’t wait to share these with the world. Brilliant work 😉
Awwww. How incredibly kind! You two rock! Thank you so much~
Your Photos Cindy are just so brilliant, clarity colour composition all things I can learn from you… thank you…
Visa versa 2 U x 2!
Liebe Cindy deine Vogelfotos sind immer wieder schön ein tollen Montag wünscht dir Klaus in Freundschaft
Danke schoen Klause! Guten tag! 🙂
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Thank you Cindy! So beautiful! Looks like the rain made all the winged ones happy at least. Glad you made it home safely to all that!:-)
Hugz to you my wonderful friend!
very nice post
lovely
Very kind of you & so appreciated!! Cheers to you~
Great Hawk photo in particular, Cindy! Welcome to Spring… RH
Thank you, we never had a winter this year, so it has been perpetual spring. Odd~
And I am happy to see the Holler again too. Look at the hawks and the hummers; stunning.
They are my buddies! I missed them! So glad you visited them too!!:)
Gorgeous captures! Absolutely wonderful! 😀
Awwww, so very kind and appreciated!
Beautiful photos! I especially love the hummingbirds, my very good friends and regular visitors at our cottage in summer in Michigan. Seeing them here gives me hope that this long, ungodly stretch of frigid winter will someday give up and let those hummers get on back to another summer!
Take heart! Spring is just around the corner…..Cheers to you~
What a wonderful place to call your holler! I am glad your drought is broken.
Yes the Holler is quite different! The drought was truly horrific. 1000’s od dead orchard trees are around us!
Funny that your first photo says flutterbyes. I’ve always thought flutterby was a more suitable name than butterfly considering they do flutter by, but are not butter that flies.
Yes, my son called them this when he was little and it stuck with me! According to old myth, people thought they ate butter which they don’t so I like the name better too!
What lovely photos you’ve sent from a land with no real winter – welcome home indeed!
There should have been a winter with frost, below freezing nights and cold rain and sleet, but due to the drought it has been an endless, scary summer! So happy for the rain. Cheers to you and thank you too!
Beautiful Cindy!
Makes me happy! Grazi~
Amazing crisp shots and lovely colours
Thank you my friend, much appreciated~
Yay, I love seeing the hummingbirds…looking forward to the warmer weather and more photos HW.
Oh good I’ll take more just for you!!!
YES!!!
What beautiful pictures. The colour is stunning in them.x
What a lovely thing to say! Mil grazi~
Love the colours.
Mil grazi~
🙂
I’m loving it! You come home from magic-land to fairyland… “lol” This is a wonderful blog! Thank you, Cindy!
Ahhh thank you my friend. The beauty is around all of us everyday, everywhere, one just has to look for it. I know you are fully aware of this Resa, because you find and/or create beauty everyday in your art~
Thank you, Cindy! I agree about beauty. It’s like…. look and you will see, for you are the beholder!
Yes! People sometimes say, “you are lucky to live in such a beautiful place.” The truth is I find beautiful places everywhere I go, as do you!!
Welcome home! Looks like spring’s in the air too!
It certainly is, although winter never really arrived this year at the Holler which is not a good thing~
Wow – what stunning pictures, especially the one of the butterfly!! 😀
One thing I really enjoy is hearing which photos people like the best so thank you very much for telling me! It can vary a lot!
The colors here are as vivid in nature as you found in the streets of Puerto Rico! And those dramatic hawks are stunning.
The hawks completely intrigue me.They strike me as creatures who don’t take any s$%# from anything or anyone!!!
Beautiful pictures!
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
🙂 Beautiful photos and I liked very much the one of the little birds while they are drinking together water !
Awww so glad you did! They are adorable aren’t they! Cheers to you my friend~
Yes so sweet and adorable 🙂 ! Arrivederci Cindy <3
So beautiful, Cindy….just excellent captures🙋🙋
So happy you think so! Thanks my friend~
Beautiful pictures, so vibrant and real. Love them!
Makes my evening! Mil grazi~
🙂
Stunning photos! I love the hummingbirds in particular. So graceful and vibrant! 🙂
Aren’t they wonderful little creatures! So brave and entertaining. I love them too!
Hee! I say “flutterby” too!
Yes, but are you wearing a tiara when you say it???? Laughing. Love your blog~
So beautiful! You take wonderful photographs!
Well visa versa 2 U X 2! Your artwork and comics are spectacular!
I laughed when you were the first to like that “Cherry Tree Art” picture. Only a holler gal could appreciate that kind of mess.
You really had me going the first time I read about your holler. I was really thinking you lived in Kentucky!
I do live in a kentucky holler, except in a very rural part of southern ca. not much different really. you rock. love your talent~
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I am most honored my friend. Mil grazi and hugz to you~
Great photos – are you taking them yourself?
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This is so thoughtful of you and so very appreciated! Mil grazi~
Powerful shots
Merci beaucoup mon ami~
The lovely photos and the fun filled words made me smile! Thanks, Cindy, for the way you share things with us all. Hugs, Robin
What a lovely comment! Hugz back to you my friend~
Cindy: Isn’t it fun to come home again after all the time away. Wow, we’ve just had another ice storm followed by snow and you have such an abundance of blooms and butterflies.
Oh, my goodness what gorgeous photos!!
Well how wonderful of our to say this! Thank you~
so funny–I am scanning, enjoying the picks of the hummers–then all of a sudden–this HUGE hummer! ha ha! I quickly discovered it was the Hawk Hummer variety, but for a minute there….woooh!! Welcome home, Cindy. “we” sure had a great time…:)
We always do! Please come with me on my next foray to Canada to photograph the Bald Eagles…….you can be the writer, I’ll stick with photos~ btb I loved ‘Luci’—-just read it, wonderful~
I did not get the chance to hop in your cyber suitcase for this trip because we have been on the road in NZ so have a lot of catching up to do.We get home in 4 days time ….
Isn’t it good to be home Cindy. wow those hawks really “eyeball” you, stunning…
Majestic is the word that comes to mind when I see these photos. Awesome share!
Awwww, so kind and so appreciated! Thank you!
Lovely pics, Cindy
Danke schoen!
This is very beautiful work you have posted here, thank you for posting this.
Thank you for appreciating & cheers to you!
Great shots. 🙂
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I will keep coming back to your blog at times when I am free. Your blog is very interesting. Thank you.
Welcome and I am so pleased you are visiting. Enjoying your blog as well. Cheers to you~
Cheers. Thank you
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Beatiful and amazing…
So kind of you and so appreciated too. Thank you!
So lovely to see those photos of the hummingbird and hawk up close. All beautiful photos Cindy, as usual.
I love people who see the beauty in hummingbirds and hawks. Thank you very much Helene დ