Out for a walk...

On a super windy May day, between the wind whipping me and my (phone) camera, and whipping the trees, I found it impossible to get an in-focus picture when walking today.   But the tree blossoms were fuller and spring is slowly greening here.

Last week:

This week:

Last week:

This week:

Blurry pic, but the Redbud trees are fuller of blossom

And I noticed this little fella on my second lap around the wetland path (actually, he wasn't all that little.  He was nearly a foot long):

It was just him and me out at this spot on this windy day, so I'm not sure what had him in his shell, 

but he was playing bashful.

Cattails