Double-crested Cormorant

Rainy Day

Everybody needs a little help sometime.  Although, why the female house finch needs the male to bring her food, when she built her nest in a bird feeder, beats me.  Day 5 and she has laid 4 eggs so far.

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Strawberries

Since many people wondered how the strawberries were doing, I thought i'd show you. Yummy!

Celebrating

Celebrating a good test! Another scary hurdle jumped and time for celebrating!

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Strange Macro Monday

We brought some strawberry plants home this spring.

While planting them, we noticed some writing on the bottom of the flimsy cups that made us chuckle.

Thank goodness they're also recyclable because I don't see me serving tea to guests in them.

Macro Monday is easy to play, snap a macro (or any close-up) photo, post it on your blog and come back here and sign MckLinky. Don't forget to visit each other. :)  MM started on Sept 29, 2008 - Thanx to all of you for helping make it such a fun start to the week!

Bottoms up!

Each round of testing brings huge agitation.  I fret and worry and am unbearable to live with in the days prior to the tests, and if there's a waiting time for results I'm just as bad.  However, the test I have tomorrow ~ the dreaded colonoscopy ~ gives results right away.   That doesn't stop me from being extremely jittery, hyper, moody, unable to think, easy to tears and somewhat cranky today though.  Bottoms up!
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As a bonus I wanted to share that the finch laid another egg. From the research I did it appears that she'll be laying one a day until she has 4-6 eggs, they will incubate about 14 days and leave the nest a couple of weeks after that. Very cool!

Life affirming

I am SO excited! A little House Finch couple have decided to start a family in the bird feeder hanging on my bed room window. They built their nest in one day! Wow!  This morning I woke up to her happy song and when I had the opportunity to peek through the window I discovered one egg!  I think she's one smart bird to put her babies so close to food.  What can be more life affirming than watching new life in nature?  This will be fun!

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