Sprinter in April

Spring has been nearly non-existent this year.  Our snow piles were just about gone last week, and then we got almost ten inches of snow again.  It's hard to believe that May is only a few short days away.

Bird on a wire 

 Sidewalk ice

I'm surprised I found these before the kids stomped on them! 

The weather has been slowly warming up, and we've been able to walk on the ATV trail where everything still looks pretty brown and dead.

Woodpeckers have been around 

Still bundled up 

Looks like this tree has a large nose 

Finally, we have been seeing some real signs of spring. One day the yard was busy with robins flying around. There must have been at least a dozen in the yard.

One pulled a worm out of the ground while we watched it 

We took a drive up to Grand Marais on Easter Sunday.

Still some ice in the harbor 

Barry likes to fly his quad copter around, filming the scenery below 

Scattering 

Icy 

Seagull on statue 

Flying away 

Geese standing around on the ice 

Boats waiting for summer use 

Brothers 

On the drive up we saw this eagle's nest through the trees. We stopped on the way back home to get a closer look. 

The sun was setting as we arrived back home, and the lake was very calm. We stopped at the Silver Bay Marina for a few minutes.

Just a subtle difference between sky and water