Hummingbird moths vs Miller moths...and

the Whitelined Sphinx (hummingbird moth) wins!  I wasn't sure what I had an encountered today while checking out my newly planted flowers (Red Feathers Echium)

but it looked to be 1/2 hummingbird minus a beak and 1/2 grasshopper but it could fly.  I showed the picture to a friend and she knew right away that this was a hummingbird moth!  Pretty cool!  Check out the 'snout' on this one:

 I'd much rather have this guy floating around rather than those annoying Miller moths as long as it wasn't flying around inside my house!

Ahh.....spring!

The crab apple down the street:

The red bud in the yard:

 Loving the baby geese down the street:

 Even the big fat squirrel robbing my feeder gets a little love today!

Loving the lilacs!

 Had double the amount of fun last week.  I got to take pics of my kids with my new camera!  They even smiled and looked good for me most of the time but not all!

 The essence of their relationship!

 She captures my feelings about the smell of lilacs so well:

 Prepping for her senior photo portraits:

The contradictions of nature (snow vs. the mothy moths!)

We started off with hail on Friday.  That's always a welcome weather occurrence once I have my garden in the ground (do you sense the sarcasm?).  Luckily, nothing was too advanced to have sustained much damage.  My little girl had fun running around and collecting the hail!

 It's amazing that we had a pretty nice day on Saturday until the afternoon when the rain started during their late soccer games.  Unfortunately, the weather forecasters were right and we woke up on Mother's Day with a couple of inches of snow!  I sent the kids off this morning in their boots and winter coats.

 The garden is now covered in hopes that whatever is planted will survive the deep freeze expected tonight!  (24 degrees)!!

 I will remember you fondly my sweet little columbine!

Funny that I observed this guy hanging out in my house this morning!  Maybe the deep freeze will do something good and kill these suckers off for the year and I won't have to deal with them for the next month!