Celebrating new life in the garden on Mother's Day 2016

Happy Mother's Day! 

It's a great time to celebrate new life- so I'd like to share the new life growing in our garden... with these pictures, enjoy :)

Tiger swallowtail butterflies are my fave! This photo isn't new... but is still
from my garden :)

A beautiful magnolia bloom, smells just as lovely.

Our magnolia in bloom.

These magnolia flowers are huge & smell so delightful.

As the magnolia fades, this snail is catching a nap in its shade.

Fancy daffodils- so pretty.

Lots of spring colours

Our white dogwood in full bloom

Wooly caterpillar :)

Rhododendrum flower buds...
 with a daddy long legs checking them out.

Peonies flower buds... with an ant to help it open.

Pretty heather blooms

Is this the birth of a walnut tree?

Our pink dogwood has lots of blooms forming!

Close up of the pink dogwood bloom.

Purple irises. I need more of these :)

Birth of a fern plume.

 Wisteria starting to bloom.

Our wisteria starting to bloom, more spectacular every year.

Columbine abounds in our gardens with their pretty pink blooms.

Columbine almost blooming.
If you look hard, you'll see a face in this fairyland photo.

Our azalea, preparing to bloom soon.

Tiger swallowtail butterfly- saw the 1st one this year- yesterday :)

I wish I could add the delightful scent of these lily of the valleys.

A white spider in my garden

About a month ago, I found a little white, crab spider on a rhododendron flower, in my garden.

I don't think it's an albino, but here's a link with lots of albinos.

I've never seen a white spider

before, perhaps they aren't very common?

I've checked on her/him a few times and she appears to have acquired pink markings, (if it's the same one) and stayed on the same bloom.

Then I found another one, on another bloom, so I know there are at least 2 of them in my garden.

I haven't seen the 2 spiders lately, but then my rhododendron has finished blooming,

and I can't find them there, maybe they moved?

UPDATE:

I was pleasantly surprised today, when I found a little white spider with pink markings, on my favourite roses.

A perfect opportunity for a photo shoot, featuring awesome coloured roses, and a pretty, little white spider.

I wish I had a better camera, but I'm still happy with some of the photos I took.

I know that many people hate spiders, so maybe I'm being optimistic, hoping you enjoy my pictures.

I think she's a beauty, just like this rose.

I think the other one has moved into my peonies now, or else I have

more white spiders than I thought.