British Car Spring Gathering at Camp Dearborn

The last MG club event was pretty much snowed out, but a beautiful 70-degree spring day greeted this year's Spring British Car Gathering at Camp Dearborn in Milford, Michigan. The spring gathering is an entirely informal all-marques event, just an opportunity to get the car out and enjoy a little fellowship on a (hopefully) nice May day.

So come take a walk down the parking lot. We shall see what we shall see.

MGA 1600.

The FUN MG!

"Bugeye" Austin Sprite.

MGA and "Bugeye" Austin Sprite.

"Bugeye" Austin Sprite.

1969 Triumph TR6. (For sale for only $6,400!)

MGB

MG TC.

Lotus Seven.

MGB GT and MG Midget.

MGB GT.

And that's it for this year, since I only took pictures of cars in the sun, and most of the lovely British cars in attendance this year were tucked in the cool shade of those overhanging trees. 

Spring on Wolverine Lake: Flowers

April showers brought May flowers. The flowering trees in particular have been spectacular this spring after a couple of down years because of the harsh winters.

First on the scene, crocuses:

Quince blossoms:

Forsythia (soon to be the home of Myrtle Mallard and her nest):

Peach blossoms:

Flowering crabapple:

(Alas, the last Spring for our neighbor's flowering crabapple. It's going to have to come down to make room for their addition.)

Tulips:

Daffodils:

Crystal hummingbirds:

(Okay, you caught me. That one wasn't a flower.)

Something purple:

Cherry blossoms:

Apple blossoms:

Dogwood:

First, the initial blooming. Then...

And just now coming into their own, the greatest-smelling flower of all, lilacs:

Spring on Wolverine Lake: Waterfowl

Getting back to a bit more photoblogging with a batch of springtime photos from around our house.

Today we have a few migratory waterfowl photos. In addition to our usual summer guests -- mute swans, Canada geese, mallards, blue herons -- we had some fun visitors pass through on their way to locations farther north.

These are bufflehead ducks. They usually just pass through just after the ice lets out and just before the ice forms in the fall. I kinda wish we had a video clip of them because they're great fun to watch. They hang out in small, active groups and spend their time swimming about vigorously on the water, popping underwater to swim fairly long distances, and occasionally flying to a new spot to do it all again.

We also had a few less frequent visitors to our lake this year. A few loons passed by our dock. We don't usually see loons on our lake because they prefer quieter places. But every now and then a few will stop by to say howdy.

Also in waterfowl news around the house, a mallard has set up a nest under the forsythia bush by our garage. She began sitting the nest on May 10, so we expect to have a few ducklings walking by on their way to the lake in early June.

More on Myrtle Mallard later....