Some Birds Showed Up Today

It didn't take the birds as long to discover that I'd filled the feeders as it did last time. This time the scout was a Nuthatch which stuck around just long enough for me to get the camera up and turned on before it flew away. I got a picture or two of a Chickadee or maybe two Chickadees (they all look alike to me) and this one took off just as I snapped the shutter. Blurry bird!

Then a pair of Sparrows landed on the tube feeder. They were the first of a small flock of Sparrows and a few Mourning Doves that pecked around at the fallen seed.

This is the last lesson in the new drawing book, Drawing Is For Everyone. I liked it when I drew the bird and branch with a fine-line marker. Then I colored it with watercolor markers and put on too much water so the color bled all out of the lines and smooshed together untidily. I will definitely be making another attempt at this one using a smaller brush and a lot less water.

Tonight was a knitting night at DM's house. She made sliders, KE brought cheese and crackers, CS brought homemade cookies, and I took a veggie and dip try. We did not starve. In fact we talked and talked and almost didn't get to knitting but we eked out a couple hours of knitting. The talking didn't stop though.

While the first part of the watercolor marker page was drying, I came back here and read and critiqued the first two submissions for next week's Novel Writing group's meeting. Only three more to come. I hope at least one or two of them come so that I can go over them on Sunday after DD leaves. Suddenly time before the next meeting seems short.

--Barbara