I 'shot' this hummingbird in the early evening. He was very busy defending 'his' feeder and snatching little bugs out of the air, and barely sat still for a second, hence the blurry picture.
I think it perfectly captures how fast and busy these little birds almost always are ..

               
           Although sometimes even they have to rest for a bit ..

We're already halfway May and almost all the trees have suddenly turned green.
Funny how that happens almost overnight each year. At first you see this faintest haze of green of the barely unfurling leaves, and next you look and .. bam! .. green!

I love my morning walks through this pretty rural neighborhood, talking about green ..

The grapevines are so pretty, neatly lined up in their rows, and they're starting to get some leaves too!
And how about this wisteria:

Or these spectacular Red Buckeye tree (left) and Jacaranda tree (right) flowers :

My own hanging basket is also flowering profusely ..

                                   

And look! The cosmos (right) and the sunflowers (left) I sowed, are coming up!

My vegetables are growing also, but I really hope we will ever get to eat them, because look what came walking through the yard a couple of days ago ..

She acted like she didn't see them, but she might be baaaack!             

           

And while we're in the yard, here's another addition we added to our compound this morning:

 

A gas company out of McMinnville installed this large gas tank next to the RV.
Since we're going to stay put for a couple of years, it's much more convenient to have a larger tank instead of the 2 smaller ones that we normally use.
They will come and re-fill it when we're getting low, for which service we pay $25/yr (plus the gas of course). Nice!

OK, let's see, what else? Oh, we drove the 15 miles to McMinnville the other day, to do some shopping and getting acquainted with the town at the same time.

It's a cute little village, especially the 'historic downtown' area, where we had a nice cup of coffee at the Union Block coffee ..

And that will about sum this week up me thinks. There's a few other small things but I'll save it for next time. Just in case I won't have anything to talk about. like that will happen. Ever.

Here's a last pic of James burning the burn-pile. Or actually watering the burn-pile.
Or at least the grass surrounding the burn-pile, in case it will get 'out of hand'. You can see it tried to creep away from him a little there ..