Gobble Gobble

I know it's not Thanksgiving and I'm not hungry either, but I've got turkey on my mind. One particular turkey. I was weeding the rest of the retaining wall, the parts I can reach anyway, and was just about finished when I was walking my bucket of weeds over to the corner where I dump them so they'll compost. I saw some little thistle-y looking weeds in with the day lily leaves and started pulling them out. I reached toward one in the middle of the plant and saw something huge and dark behind the plant. "Holy Jesus!" I said and took a few steps back. That's when I realized that the hen turkey has moved into the day lilies. She didn't move when I tried weeding right in front of her nor when I came back to try for a picture. She's a little hard to see. All you can really see is the arc of her dark brown back in amongst the green leaves in the middle of the picture. (click on the picture to embiggen it) I assume she's on a nest. Later on I saw the leaves moving so I figure she's still alive.

 

I got a better picture of the female Oriole today. In fact I got two, but I'll only post one. This time she was on the jelly, not the orange half, so my theory that the orange glass ball pulled the focus yesterday pans out. 

Guess what I drew today. I went back to the Birds prompt and drew the turkey in the day lilies.

 

Then when I was drawing a gratitude journal page for today I included the turkey with my walk and the sunshiny day. I told you, I have turkey on my mind.

 

I listened to thirteen more chapters of Spies Don't Retire this afternoon. Only thirteen more to go and I only have four revisions listed. There were a couple more small deviations in the chapters today that didn't seem worth making an issue of. She's doing an awesome job. Well worth the fee.

I finished weeding what I can reach on the retaining wall. It isn't perfect, not by a long shot, but it's better and I promise to do a better job keeping up with it through the summer. I noticed a few big thistles in front that I need to get some leather gloves on to deal with. Maybe tomorrow.

--Barbara