Splish Splash

A Sparrow was taking a bath... Now I have that song from the 50s? 60s? in my head. Okay, I looked it up. Bobby Darin sang it in 1959. Maybe it'll go away if I sleep on it.

It was also a Woodpecker day. I have two good shots of a Downy Woodpecker. The one I like best is the one where it's clinging to a Slinky and looking around waiting for the Sparrows to get off the suet cakes.

And then a Red-bellied Woodpecker landed on the suet pellets but this time it was on my side of the feeder so I got to see it in all its glory and take a halfway decent picture of it. It stayed for quite a while, long enough for me to even take a phone photo and I'm painfully slow at that.

I decided I need to draw something cute today so I pulled out Drawing Cute and some colored pencils and drew popcorn and toast. I didn't use the right shade of brown for the toast but I didn't have a golden brown pencil. I have more than 100 colored pencils. Why don't I have every color under the sun? I like the happy little toast with its melting pat of butter.

The next herb from Wildflower Watercolor is Red Clover. It's not really red, more of a pink but I like the way it turned out. And is clover an herb? I don't know. I always thought it was more of a weed but maybe it has a higher purpose. Bees like it so it can't be all bad.

It was such a nice day, a little windy, but I decided to go out and move the big swaths of leaves off the driveway and front yard. I used the leaf blower until the battery ran down, then I used the rake to finish up. One of the neighbors came over with his snow shovel which he used to shovel the leaves out of the gutter and to push the leaf piles back from the curb. Seems he got a fine from the city for having his leaves in the street where they can flow down and clog up the drain. I've never heard of such a thing but I was grateful for the help. We raked and shoveled in front of the neighbor's too because we're just that nice. It's a good thing we did because it started raining a couple hours ago and hasn't stopped yet.

Today wasn't a writing day. I scrolled through the manuscript a bit but ended up only making a few word changes. Nothing to write home about. I spent more time working on one of the critiques for next Monday's critique group Zoom.

I'm trying to encourage the waviness and curls in my hair to stick around. When it's wet it's wavy and curly. When it's dry, not so much, but I'm trying to fluff it up. I'll let you know how that goes. Maybe if I got some mousse...

--Barbara