Spring Beauties

Special music this morning at church was "His Eye Is On The Sparrow".  Oops - I hadn't yet put out bird houses.   My Monthly-To-Do list says to get it done in April and the month is fast coming to an end.  When I got home, Whip and I jumped into Jormungandr to do just that. Put up the paired houses by the end of the driveway, in the north end of the meadow and in the south end of the meadow, down by the basswood trees, at the south end of Gorgeous Gorge, on Neighbor Blake's land by Turtlehead pond, on Neighbor Doug's land on Pup Mountain, and on Brother Russell's place by the end of his driveway.  Stopped off to check on the ephemerals at the top end of the old woods. There are spring beauties blooming everywhere up here.  Interestingly, at the bottom of the woods there are more hepatica.  It's all the same woods.  Stopped off by Gorgeous Gorge and noted that big flat leaves of yellow pond lilies have unfurled and are floating atop the water.  Some spiky stuff growing right at the dam - might be cattails - will have to see what it grows into.  I also have a mineral block to put out for the deer.  Rummaged through Sleipnir and think old parts of my aquarium would make a platform to put it on.  Also noticed that I hadn't shut up the bird houses on the stockade.   I need a ladder to reach those.  Instead I wrote down both tasks on the white board.  Gives me something easy to accomplish tomorrow.