Signs of summer and upcoming internship

I love this time of year. The weather is perfect. I absolutely love our backyard! Although we live in town, our house is on the edge of a bluff that overlooks Dells Pond. It is very quiet and peaceful. We have a lot of birds and wildlife in our backyard. Nothing better than to wake up in the morning to birds chattering! Skott built a neat birdhouse out of a dried gourd last summer. It is hanging on the trellis for our grape vine. It is right outside our living room window (you can't tell from the picture, but it has some really neat carvings on it).

We also have bunnies living in the neighborhood. I happened to look out the upstairs window and see them running around in the backyard. One of them used to sleep under my car in the winter. Every morning when I would back out, it would just be sitting there. I call them my "Rori bunnies" since that was the nickname of my first frenchie who ran and hopped like a bunny. They live under our deck sometimes but are probably reconsidering that location since Izzy LOVES to chase and almost caught one a few weeks ago.

This is our fire pit that Skott built. He spent days hiking all over the bluff last summer finding these really old, huge bricks (80+ bricks actually). Thanks for all your hard work babe! (As you can see, we need to burn some stuff!).

Now that summer is here, you can find Fucie like this:

sunning on the deck all day. He is very content to just lay there for hours.

This is our insanely large bleeding heart. It must be the dog pee or something because it is HUGE! I love it. This photo was taken a couple weeks ago and it is even bigger now.

Well, I really should get back to packing. I leave tomorrow for my internship at Cedar Creek in Minnesota. I am excited! I will be living in a tent (with access to bathroom, kitchen, showers, etc) and collecting plant research data all summer. I am really grateful that I will be able to come home most weekends. I will try and post lots of pics next weekend. Until then, hopefully the thought of me living in a tent will bring a smile to your face :)