really! they're so pretty! the tiniest blue, pink, and purple flowers (teeny tiny!), robust and cheerful dandelions, and adorable, if strangely smelly little daisies.
anyone else notice anything spectacular outdoors, lately, that usually goes missed?
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earlier this week, we had RAIN. now, i know you and most of your readers do not live in godforsaken alberta, but to me, rain is spectacular (and sorely, sorely missed).
also, there is a tiny nuthatch family living in one of the insulation holes of the burnt-down house next to ours. the mummy and daddy nuthatches go in and out tirelessly, and when they go - floop! - into the hole, we can hear all the little cheep-cheeping of the greedy little nestlings. spectacular.
but not missed (at least not by our cat, who watches with desperate frustration and makes little quacking noises)
i love little yearning cat quacking noises! one of my favourite fur terrorists around here does the same thing.
you're lucky to have a nest to spy on -- i keep looking, but the bird-filled cedar in the yard that i'm *sure* houses somebody is too dense, and the branches too high up, for me to reach.
all i can do is watch and make quacking noises.
i can climb up that tree easily!!! why didn't you ask me to check it out?
The barn swallows are just beautiful, dark blue, skimming and swooping over the lawn. They were diving in 4 feet from me and the chickens this morning, and the roosters were starting to run after them! Of course by the time the Polish rooster saw the swallow it was far too late to go after it, but the silly thing kept trying. He can't see very well, and had to tilt his head almost upsidedown to see around his poof.
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