It's always an adventure going to the farm, we went over Tuesday, April 14th. We had some more trees, shrubs and plants to plant. Lois and I got there and loaded everything into the golf carts, we then headed to area down by the south pond. On the way we stopped by the big loblolly pines so Lois could see where I planted some of the phlox and see where the asparagus was at, while there we planted a rhubarb plant. We then headed down to the pond where I ran the weed eater by the two new crab apple trees. Then I showed Lois the azalea bushes, most of them were blooming.

Lois had gotten some wild violets from a lady in Hendersonville, we had went to her house and dug them up. So we took them to the farm and planted them on the slop under the oak trees. We had not seen an violets growing on the farm.

We planted two red bud trees, two flowering almond bushes, one white dogwood, two oak trees and one peach tree.

We also ran the weed eater with the brush blade on it on the slope by the azaleas and under some of the oaks trying to get rid of some of the elm trees.

I also started clearing some of the elms and briar's that were growing down by the pond. While running it I noticed something fall into the water, looking closer it was what I thought was a butterfly. Upon closer examination there were two of them mating and they were moths not butterflies. I put them on the seat of the golf cart and they separated, the female wing span was 4" wide, they both had tails coming off the lower wings. I have included pictures of them, I have never seen a moth colored like these. I did research on the computer to find out what kind they were. It said they are called Luna moths.

I downloaded the pictures off the game camera, there were 252 pictures

this time. We had 2 pictures of a crow sitting on the ground, numerous pictures of deer and 1 picture of the south end of a north bound bobcat.

You can just verily see him on the right side of the picture just above the center.

I have to get the other two cameras up and running. I want to put one of them down along the pond, the other camera I may move around some. I have thought about putting it on some game trails that I have found leaving the property going under the fence over into some fields and I have several other spots that might be interesting.
Also took some pictures of the tulips we planted earlier this year, one was even blooming.

The dogwood trees and red buds trees were blooming and the trip over to the farm had some pretty scenery. We don't have a lot of these on the farm but we are working on getting more but here are pictures of one of the dogwoods

Of course I didn't take all the pictures I should have, we got to working so hard and time just flew by. It was 2:00 in the afternoon before we knew it and we then went into town to eat. When we got back I still needed to download the game camera and the weather turned colder so I didn't get as many pictures taken as I wanted.

I will try and post the game camera pictures sometime tomorrow