Full Pool

Fifteen birds! A new record...

Orange

Still Life with Tiny Lizardo

 

Simple and Lovely

 

The chickens approve!

Getting Dusty

These two cutie-pie house sparrow fledglings (you can tell this by the bright yellow at the outer edges of their beaks) were enjoying a mighty fine dust bath. Birds need to take dust baths in order to rid their feathers of mites and other parasites...and because it is fun, perhaps?

Twisted

Giant soft pretzel for the win!

Hawkish

Nursery Visitor

 

Yesterday at the nursery there were TONS of butterflies of all sorts, so lovely. 

Where's Lizardo?

 

Webby

While I was asked by a faithful reader to not feature any more spider-related content here--hi, D.!--I'm hoping that a spider web will be OK. Look at the size of this thing! And yes, there was a spider associated with it (not pictured here). It's very close to the African basil plant, favorite of the bees, so it definitely had to be knocked down (sorry, spider)...and also? It was right at face/eye level (ewwww). 

Random Heart: Post-Rain Edition

 

(Some of these are a bit of a stretch, I know, but I looked down and thought, "a heart," so here it is.)

Feather Show

 

Figgy

 

Is this bread with figs in it, or is it figs with some bread around them? (Delicious, either way...)

Night and Day

Addition

 

A muffler man + a sweet dog + a car picnic = fun fun! 

Veggie Delight

 

How pretty is this big ol' salad? (Also delicious...)

Trio

Pretty Spider

 

While our yard is full of spiders--and their webs--I have never seen this spider before. Mr. Google tells me it is most likely a green lynx spider. If they stay low so that we don't walk face first into their webs, spiders are welcome! Up high...not so much. Ugh.

Another Gift

 

This time a mockingbird feather... all of the birds have been molting but are just about finished. I don't really see mockingbirds in the yard, so this is a special one.

Dancing Clouds

 

Tiny Flasher

 

And as ever, look at the teeny feet!

Borage Buzz

Almost Gone...

The oriole season is coming to a close...this is one of the late fledglings. So happy that we get to enjoy their shenanigans for about 5 months.

Day into Night

 

Coffee Fruit

 

Persimmon or tomato?

Happy Birthday

Today would have been my mom's 87th birthday...I hope she's looking down on us while enjoying a giant piece of birthday cake covered with pink frosting roses. We miss her every day...

Clucker

 Hello!

MmmmmMagnolia

 

This magnolia flower is about 10 inches across...and the fragrance? Heavenly.

Hmmm...

 

This sign is right across the street from the post office--a place I of course went to many, many times with Etsy parcels--and every single time I see it I think, "Boobs?" I mean...that logo does not even resemble fish, does it? I don't think the right side ever had an "eye," but maybe it did and someone said, "Look, dudes, those are BOOBS!" Ha!

Nice

 

Kids

 

There are two late-season oriole fledglings in the yard...usually the orioles have mostly migrated by the end of August; there are older juveniles, too, but not birds being fed by mom/dad. Two of them were in the very top of my neighbor's 50-foot-high paper bark tree. Mom appeared with a spider...and then the bird who had been fed--the other was up above--proceeded to harangue its parent, asking for more (as baby birds do!). The other baby flew down to the scene of the action, but alas, no insects for it.