A Boy & His Chicken

Here is the photo of the dayMy Little Man and one of his beloved chickies. Isn't that adorable? The only thing he may love more than chickies is horsies. Pronounced "hovies".  Cows are pretty popular too. He's a little farmer boy, for sure.

We had more snow this winter than we have had in the 6 years we've lived here. We still have plenty on the ground. All that snow is melting off into a lot of water. We have standing water everywhere. Fields and pastures look like lakes. I think because of this and the fact that there was very little water in California this year, we have more birds than we have ever seen. Ducks, geese, cranes and swans. Swans are everywhere. We have literally thousands of them all around us. It is like living in a nature show. Just beautiful. And the noise is almost deafening. The swans have a call similar to a cranes. I wish I could figure out how to spell it out for you. We have been enjoying the show so much. They fly over head by the hundreds and we all stop and stare. We have also spent a lot of time stopped in the middle of the road watching them flock by the hundreds in flooded fields. It is a good thing we don't have much traffic around here. We took a few photos but these do not do justice to the true picture.These just show a few swans and ducks. We have seen the field just white with them. We have more cranes this years as well. On our way to church this morning we passed maybe a dozen cranes in a field & they were "dancing." If you have ever seen them on a nature show that is exactly what they were doing. Bobbing and weaving, up and down and side to side. I love living here! Hope you had a wonderful Resurrection Day!