Foziewisp

 

Ahoy, Skippers

 

This gomphrena plant is attracting multitudes of little skippers...so cute!

It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere...

 

Birds, Seen

 

A fun hike on Sunday at the San Elijo Lagoon. 

We saw an egret.

A belted kingfisher (I've never seen one before!).

A Great egret.

(Size comparison here between the egrets...and some ducks!)

And not sure what this bird is...a mockingbird (maybe?).

Tiny Bather

 

Sun/Moon

 

Pump/Kin

 

...bread, that is, for the first day of Fall!

Night/Day

 

Before/During/After

 

The dahlias keep on coming! Yay!

Yuck/Yum

 

Yuck: IV medication infusion.

Yum: spumoni gelato as a reward for the yuk.

Fab(bee)lous {Sorry!}

 

Dove, Fab

 

Also Fab

 

Fab

 

I love this fire truck...the colorful stripes and the name of the station in cursive lettering--fab!

Pink and Purple Fab

 

I should think there might be one more big harvest (maybe two?) of dahlias this season. And I am very happy about that! 

Puffs

 

Calling Mr. Hitchcock

 

Upon hearing quite a racket outside, we went and looked...and saw all of these crows (plus more not pictured here). Then they moved down about half a block and continued to caw. Then they all flew away. Weird!

Random Heart: Almond Butter on the Side of the Blender Edition

 

Strike a Pose

 

This lovely towhee was bopping around the backyard--they are VERY fast and hard to photograph, but he/she seemed to be posing for me. 

I hope that it is the same bird seen above. I think this is just a crazy molt where this poor bird lost all of its face feathers at the same time; I so hope that it doesn't have some sort of disease. (I do think it's a molt--the bird looks rather bedraggled in general...)

We All Scream...

 

...for ice cream! (Since it is a federal holiday, you MUST eat it! It's a hardship, I know...)

Lounging Little Lizardo

 

A lovely lizardo lounging in the sun...look at its tail!

Super relaxed...

Kinda sleepy...

Wait...where did it go?!

There it is! Sooo teeny-tiny!