Our backyard forest has turned me into a botanist! I used a couple of phone apps that can take photos like these
Nature created some art on one of our rock cliffs. Blur your eyes a bit and you can see cat head on an octopus body:
Helen got Irina an adorable baby poodle, named Devochka :
The newest member of our backyard menagerie, a red-tailed hawk:
Guess ‘who’ moved into the neighborhood: