Taking a Ride

One of my favorite bird antics is when a Downy Woodpecker flies over to take a little ride on a Slinky before fluttering over to the suet cakes for a snack. This little lady spent a bit of time on the ride before getting down to business this morning.

 

A Robin landed on the birdbath but never turned around so I could see its red breast. All I got was the back view. Oh, and I went out this afternoon to fill the feeders and planned to unplug the defective birdbath heater because it seems silly to leave it plugged in when it's not working. Turned out it was mostly unplugged so I plugged it back in. Now I need a night below freezing to see if it's working or not. There's a chance it'll get below 32 tonight so I'll maybe be able to tell in the morning.

 

The prompt I chose today out of the Sketchbook Challenge book was Orange. So I drew a couple oranges and some orange slices. Then I branched out to draw an orange-ish sunset. I liked the way they looked in the sketchbook better than I like them in the picture.

 

The next two pages in the Watercolor book were painting trees. I suck at painting conifers. But I tried. The lower one is better than the upper one and I like the shade of green of the lower one too. The upper one is too blue. 

When I went out to fill the feeders and carried new cob corn up to that feeder I saw that the sedum has grown quite a bit. I think they look like little blue green rosebuds.

 

And the Stella d'Oro lilies have started to send up leaves. The one under the cob corn feeders is nibbled almost down to nubs but the others are shooting up greenery.

 

I even drew a gratitude journal page just before I came back here tonight. I got some help getting rid of the wrong Dropbox account and getting the correct one on here. It's a good thing I had the tech guy on the line because I'd have never figured it out. Who knew that it would be so complicated?

 

I took another little walk up to the stop sign and back this afternoon. It looked nice and warmish but the wind had a little bite to it. Made me walk faster to warm up.

This afternoon I finished listening to Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea. It's a story about the Red Cross women who drove the donut and coffee trucks in WWII. Very good book. Long but worth it.

--Barbara