Botanical Garden

K took me out to the Norfolk Botanical Gardens.  On the way in, turtles lined a log, but in a spot where the car could not stop.  We were too early for their hummingbird garden and all I saw in the butterfly garden was one cabbage.  A black swallowtail appeared in another part of the gardens.  The bulbs were mostly past but the trees and shrubs were blooming.  I heard lots of birds but mostly saw robins, grackles, and one brown thrasher.  I think I heard mockingbirds.  Crows mobbed a hawk.   All in all, it was a lovely afternoon.