[campaignPete R-CT]

I finally mowed my 6” grass. Discovered that my creepy Charlie infestation is serious. The blue flowers give away its location. Cannot use it as a ground cover, as it is non-native.

Tough to find a native ground cover that will grow in the shade. Violets & goldenrod like sun.

For now, in letting the Virginia Creeper grow.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Five male and two female Grosbeak at the feeder! Both types of Orioles are here: Orchard and Baltimore, and I've got Hummingbirds again, finally. Checking my bird book, it looks as if everyone is just a few days behind last year, even with our wild fluctuations in temperatures. The only thing lagging in the yard are the Lilacs; I normally have buckets of them in the house by now and they've yet to even bloom.