Flicker!

I saw a flash of movement on the patio and looked out to see a Flicker land. Woohoo! It's very rare for one to land there. Usually they're out in the grass and far enough away that they're just a brown lump in the grass. I got a picture as it was flying away so I went back in my archives and found a holding-still Flicker picture so you can see it instead of a brown and gray blur.

 

The Sparrows worked very hard to completely empty the suet pellets feeder. They've had the assistance of the juvenile Starlings on occasion but most of the work has been done by Sparrows, usually two at a time. When three of them get on the feeder they fight because the level of pellets is low so there isn't a lot of room.

 

This afternoon I sat down to knit a little since I had a Wisconsin Writers Assn. Marketing Zoom this evening. (Lots of good info. Many notes were taken.) I should have gone out for a walk too but it was another hot, windless day and I didn't want to sweat up my freshly showered self. I finished knitting the head of the Gray Bear; next comes the arms on the way back down to the second pair of legs.

I realized as I took a picture of today's drawing out of The 15-Minute Artist: Drawing Nature that it took me an hour to do what she says should take 15 minutes. Heck, I spend more than 15 minutes on the final shading.

And that was my day. I got up late, showered, and goofed around on Canva trying to design a banner to take to the winter farmers market. The website guy sent me the jpg of the Writers Guild logo but the file isn't big enough to scale up to banner size and stay sharp, dang it. So I had to just make it up using similar colors and a graphic I found on the Canva site. I sent him the proof to see what he thinks.

I had a chat with DS this morning and worked on the manuscript in the afternoon. I was at a kind of standstill in the story but then I checked some notes I made out of an eBook guidebook about the island and got an idea for the next "worry and trouble" scene. Whew.

--Barbara