A baby monarch with a crumpled wing. We put her on a larkspur for the evening in case she was unable to fly due to her defective wing.
Hummingbirds abound at Schott's. The flowers are beautiful again this year.
Mingo Mountain:
And then we headed to Dunn Mountain for the afternoon:
Elinor and Phillip invited us over to pick huckleberries on their property. Big, plump, purple and reddish delicious berries already!
Dotty the fawn:
Dotty the fawn lost her mother when she was a day old. My parents' neighbor Tim is hand raising her. She is so cute and only a few days old here.
Louis says Dotty is trying to suck his finger down her throat. I say that's karma for all the hundreds of hours baby Louis pacified himself by sucking on my finger! Many of you remember that phase of parenting for me.
Dotty's first solid food was fresh strawberries the kids fed her.
Swimming lessons went very well. Chloe learned to swim this year and Louis is so eager to learn, too. He is very comfortable with going underwater, paddles with his arms and does bunny hops off the bottom of the pool all while creating quite a large splash and thrash in the water. With a bit more practice he will be swimming, too. We are very proud of what they accomplished in only a few days of lessons.
The fireworks at Diamond M Ranch:
