Ah, The Month of May!

OK, once again the time is going too fast to enjoy nature's beauties. The rhododendron has been beautiful, but is now on a downhill slide in terms of blooming. The clematis always makes me happy.

The stamens and pistil remind me of an exotic flower that one would most likely encounter in the tropics.

As I mowed the yard, our friend, Sam, was weedeating and came up with one of our yard treasures. A baby garter snake was captured by Sam and I was, as you can imagine, excited! He also discovered a second garter snake which was a little larger than the one shown, but it slithered away under leaf litter..

Garter snakes are one of the few WV snakes that bear their young live and not by eggs laid outside the body as do the majority of our snakes species.