It looks like the first of our backyard sunflowers (to survive being stealthily beheaded by marauding squirrels who’ve de-budded three of them — the damn varmints!) is juuuuuust about ready to open up. The bud’s been playing peek-a-boo this way for a couple days and I’m hopeful we’re but a day or so away from …
Recorded and sent directly to YouTube from my iPhone4. Sorry for the vertical letterboxing. I was trying to hold the device “properly” like a doof.
One of the reeeeeeally cool things about working at home is being able to bring the laptop out and work in the backyard. And one of the reeeeeeally cool things about working on the laptop in the backyard is that you look up and see a Cooper’s hawk looking back at you like it could …
At about 9:25 a.m. this morning, our little baby hummingbird took its first flight from the fruit picker that had been its nest since Sunday. It was able to gain a smidgen of altitude and land a few feet away on a branch in the tree where it was born (as shown above; click to …
I’m pleased to report that in the day after the miracle rediscovery at the mailbox, the baby hummingbird has stayed safe and sound and is still hanging out in the fruit picker serving ably as a surrogate nest/launch site. I’m not kidding about launch site. The tyke’s been working its wings and could take off …
Where I couldn’t locate the chick, of course one of the cats could. And after killing it Jig uncannily brought its little body inside to the dining room as if to let me know what happened. I found Ranger waiting patiently next to its body there on the rug and Jig up on the table. …
You try to steel yourself. You try to temper your hope. You say things like “well at least it has a better chance at surviving than it did.” But as you take action to ensure and continue such a tiny life — such a precious thing –Â you can’t keep yourself from considering the positive …