Western New York Idyll: Spring Starts to Spring

There's nothing lovelier than the fresh, gentle green of early leaves,  a little stream babbling along behind.

Even if it's already late May.  Our lane has come on a treat.

And the woods are filling out.

The grass springing up on the old logging trails.

Some vigorous-looking catkins.

The Five Mile Baptist church shrouded in early morning mist.

Somewhere behind there is, allegedly, the highest point in Cattaraugus County.

And the forested hills are starting to look like forested hills again.

And I have to make myself do some gardening.