The apricot trees and daffodils are in full bloom in Virginia’s false spring.

Madeline works on a local farm on the weekends. The animals recognize the sound of her truck pulling in and start clamoring for attention — they usually get apples after feeding rounds.

I strongly suspect (based on surrounding trees, season, internal structure, etc.) that we’re looking at “Tulip Morels” here.

Today we met 30,000 new friends.

Our next experiment (of many): incubating guinea fowl eggs, because guineas are terrible mothers.