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~
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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