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I think all the bees left the hive for for 30min right around noon. These are a couple clips from the backyard camera.

The first is sped up 7x for most of it, the second one is at normal speed.

And regular speed

More bucket tulips.

The flowers are popping now, the apple blossoms are almost full out and the lilac trees will all be open this week.

I tend to just call them french fry birds.

We took a short wander around frog pond yesterday. There was geese, deer, squirrels and ducklings!

I haven't seen a lot of bee action around the tulips this year. I'm not sure if its the time of year, my timing or the flowers.

I have seen a lot of smaller flying insects in and around them though.

I took the kids to Frog Pond for snack and it was awesome. We saw a deer run by the path and I pulled out the camera. We didn't see any more deer, but we did see a couple geese land.

Canada Geese Landing

And little ducklings.

There are 5 …

All of the tulips are popping right now. I am taking lots and lots of pictures and just limited on time. I added over 366 photos yesterday [*], which sounds like a backlog, but maybe I will clear them all out today.

The aforementioned buckets of flowers (some of them)

For a little while now I have been trying to make my reading page look "prettier".

The main thing that I wanted was a really easy way to show if a book was a work in progress, finished or Did-not-finish. The page that I have been basing it on is …

For a while now I have been thinking about the cinnamon rolls that I had growing up. The only way that I could describe them was biscuit vs bread style. My searching both online and recipe books was not yielding any satisfactory results. Then Jess found this.

It was a …