It finally looks and feels like spring here, stormy and unsettled.

       A spring squabble between this goldfinch couple was soon over, their reconciliation unrecorded.

A backyard house finch, cousin to the finches which helped inspire Charles Darwin to develop the principles of natural selection and change our understanding of the world.

Finches often come to feed late, waiting perhaps for more solitude, buoyed by a sudden wind.

Laden with pollen from an afternoon’s work, a honey bee navigates the sunlit stalks of a Black-eyed Susan.

Red and black, and a true bug, but I’m not sure of the species. Maybe someone can help out with an ID.

This cute bug looks ready to leap into the wild unknown of 2009.