My husband was mowing the lawn when he found 4 plastic rocks in the grass. He picked one up to get a closer look and when he dropped it he found it was actually an egg.
We figure a creature got into a bird's nest and dropped the eggs in our backyard. Although there's no sign of a nest anywhere. The eggs were left outside and the unbroken ones disappeared the next day.
The one my husband dropped. They're actually a very pretty pale blue. I have to assume they're robins eggs, there are a few that hang out around the garden.
A group shot of the unbroken eggs. There are lots of critters in our neighborhood. We've found big fat possums that hiss at you when you've got them cornered and I've had a couple rabbits in the garden as well. Our neighbor took a picture of a giant hawk sitting on our fence looking into our backyard last fall, probably hunting voles. And there's at least 3 owls living very close to us. One day my solar powered owl was on the fritz and calling out constantly, it got three other owls to answer it and they all made a nice chorus while I was working in the greenhouse.
We actually had an unexpected frost on Saturday. A friend of mine had planted out her tomatoes and they got zapped. That's an incredibly late frost for this region.
I hope everyone is getting started on the new growing season. My husband says he will till the garden tomorrow. He went and dug a hole out there today and says it is very close, by tomorrow afternoon the ground should be dry enough to work. And since I have Thursday off, I can spend the whole day planting right before the rain.
