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.

Green to Red

 

There is a nice little crop of pomegranates ripening on our tree...