Mama bunny has been hanging out in our yard lately, isn’t she lovely? I’ve wondered where she might be nesting. I found out yesterday while I was mowing the lawn. I startled a baby bunny foo foo, and quickly got the mower out of his way and directed him back to his wittew bitty bunny hole. He’s so cuuuuute! Oh we were all girly about it over here, gushy over the fuzzy sweet little baby bunny! Awwwwww… now don’t you want to see him? Yes, I know you do.

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Random image from my camera memory this morning, this house finch is feeding a bit of apple to his partner. It looked at first like he was feeding a youngin’, until she hopped around and got her own food – then they flew off. The lighting made it a bit like an intimate romantic lunch or something.

For all of you daisy lovers, here’s another one from my garden that I photographed yesterday. Just to prove not all my daisies are pink!

And for Clara, who wants to know the status of that Dewdrop Daisy, and others who want to know what she’s talking about, it’s here, and it still looks like that. Why? Because I approached the piece all wrong, and every time I thought about painting more on it I stressed myself out. It wasn’t worth it. I still have the unfinished work, but it’s stored now, and maybe I’ll try again on a fresh canvas if I can work it through in my head first.

I have also been having difficulty remembering my dreams lately to blog them. Lastnight, however, was a doozie and I remembered most of it. I’m hoping that dream is truly just a dream!

Another Pink Gerbera Daisy (a next-door neighbor to this guy here) opened up and enjoyed a brief shower of sunshine yesterday. We also had our very first Primrose bloom in a sea of what look like weeds right now.

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It has been chaos around our house today. This morning, Home Depot dropped off a truckload of materials at 8:30AM. Shortly after that, our neighbor knocked on the door and (I thought he was going to get all neighbor-nosey and ask what we were doing to the house), he told me that since I’m such an animal lover, he thought I’d like to know that there’s a great big german shepherd loose in our backyard.

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I planted this floxglove a week or so ago. (You can see it in the front of the 4th pic here.) I picked one that wasn’t on the verge of blooming because I like to wait. I like to know whether or not something I planted is going to make it, you know? I have a brown thumb, believe it or not – so that my yard is such a deep shade of green with splashes of such beautiful color and interesting flowers is very unusual to me and it’s taking some getting used to.

You’re one click away from a macro foxglove water droplet shot.

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New to our yard, this is a Red Breasted Grosbeak (identified through BDI). They’re a part of the cardinal family, have really awesome markings – and are highly skittish! I hope he returns and gets more comfortable so I can watch him feed and get some better images of him. What a neat bird !

Of course, I have more pics of our “regulars” to share. The Red Bellied Woodpecker spent a lot of time here yesterday and I got to hear him chat with a Grackle about who should be eating on our feeder. The Grackle won (grrr) and the Woodpecker told him off from a safe distance. He sounds a bit like you’d imagine a Whippoorwill sounds when he’s chatty. A couple more images of him, and of course another House Finch , because they rock my eyeballs!

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This guy is new to our feeders, he and his wifey are enjoying the thistle. The only difference between the orange house finch and red house finch is just that – the orange and red. It sure is neat to see a bird with orange on him though, he caught me off guard!