Look at this little beauty.

This is a blue heron. We first saw it last year, it was hanging out in a pond down the road, but this year he decided to grace our creek. Sorry about the quality, but there is a window screen between it, and the camera.

We've decided to name him Henry.

Yes, that is a tree stump painted bright blue. And that is a butterfly house on top of it, although it ended up housing snails, and bees instead.

The tree came down the first year we lived on the property. It was early spring, and there was still snow on the ground, but, it was warm enough to hang clothes on the line, (LOVE that smell!) All around the base of the tree were these pocks in the snow... and after a bit of investigation, we saw bees committing suicide, flinging themselves from somewhere. The very next day we had a tree removal service there! Then the most amazing thing happened. When the tree fell over, it split in half and the entire middle part of the trunk, was completely hollow of what was supposed to be there, and was _filled_ with honey, and honeycomb.. POUNDS and pounds of it!
Sadly most of it was old and nasty, but there was enough of the golden tasty stuff to let the workers take as much as they wanted, and for us to collect, and give away a bunch, and keep a bunch too.

That's one of my favorite memories of this place!

So, loooong enough, and as usual... Have fun, and
Thanks for Noticing me!