Her sister's birthday cards

So elegant and graceful--this is my granddaughter; her brother is two posts below. We are having quite a time setting up a house near them. Today a blue iris bloomed at the new place. I saw two male wood ducks swim by the end of the yard. A house finch is nesting in the patio cover and red-wing blackbirds are courting through the large cottonwoods by the stream. I saw a goldfinch through the scope. Still no glimpse of the beaver!