My wildside is now blooming like crazy.
Better late than never....here is our last Spring Series Challenge for ants. I made this a challenge for my youngest son to go out and quickly find three different spots in our yard where he knew there were ants.
I know that from working around the yard that there are places where we regularly find ants. In fact, last week I was watering our garden and it seems that I disturbed a colony of ants and they were quickly crawling up my legs before I even knew it. Let's just say that I decided the best course of action was to turn the hose on myself and wash them all away. It must have looked rather funny....you can picture me wearing a skirt with ants crawling all over my legs....then me drenched with cold hose water doing a little "ants in my pants" dance.
Here are the three photos that my son took as he completed my mini-challenge for ants.
Ant on the rocks
Ant on the tree
Ants on the sidewalk
I found a few more this morning during my outdoor time.
Ants on the sunflower
Ants on the wall leading up to the hummingbird feeder
I also noticed that on my wildside I now have English plantain blossoming. Can you see the pollen on my fingers from this little flower? It is very pretty up-close and I never even knew we had this in our yard because it usually gets mowed down before it has flowers.
After we did some pruning a few weeks ago, I added the limbs under a bush near our birdfeeder. I am trying to see what kind of animals and birds will be attracted to this sheltered area adjacent to my wildside. So far I have noticed that the little birds will fly into the pile and then pop out to snatch seeds from under the feeder.
Well that wraps up the whole Spring Series of Challenges for our family. We are busy working on the Summer Series as the weather warms up. I look forward to the next few months outdoors with my family. I hope to see your entries on Mr. Linky!
Barb-Harmony Art Mom
