We’ve had a few of these cuties flying around the yard the last couple of days:We don’t get too many hummingbirds around here. They’re probably pretty smart and realize I don’t have one of those “nectar” feeders. The one I saw today was the prettiest green and seemed to enjoy munching on coleus flowers.
You might gather I’m not an athletic person. I did a lot of aerobic dancing in the 80’s, when cute leggings and catchy dance numbers were a lot of fun. Now in Mid-Life, I’m not going to lace up a pair of athletic shoes and run a 10 K. If I ever participate in a [...]
The best scene from one of the best Westerns ever-True Grit….done by penguins! (I don’t know whether I should tag it as film or birds!)
I’ve been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
I can’t take this very much longer
I’m stranded in the sleet and rain
Don’t think I’m ever gonna make it home again
The mornin’ sun is risin’
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’
I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow
Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin’
It’s [...]
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind may blow
Earth stood hard as iron
Water like a stone
Snow had fallen, snow on snow
Snow on snow on snow
In the bleak midwinter
Long, long ago
I’m not sure who wrote this- I think it’s a Christmas carol by “traditional” The thing is Christmas comes just four days after the start of Winter; I [...]
I heard Tes raising hell this morning- running up to the window on “Intruder Alert” Usually that means his mortal enemy, the UPS man is coming. Not today- instead, a Winter traveler:
I snapped his picture through the front window. It’s our first-ever pheasant! I’ve seen them flying around the roads, but they’re going so fast, [...]