And Today I Got Photos

Just by luck I was standing by the patio door when a Chickadee landed on the square green feeder. It actually stayed long enough for me to take a couple pictures. They don't hold very still so it's a little blurry but I was excited to see a live bird for the second time in a couple of weeks.

 

Then a Downy Woodpecker showed up on the suet nuggets, pecked a bit, and then swooped over to the square green feeder too. Look at that! Two birds!

 

I had to go to the grocery today and left it later in the morning after my shower and yog-ing. It wasn't too crowded but they were out of the one thing I was really hoping to find--frozen butternut squash. I want to make a pot of Jamaican Cream of Pumpkin Soup this weekend and it's a lot less fuss made with frozen squash. But now I get to peel and cube fresh squash because that's what they had. Oh well. 

 

Once I got home I sat down at the laptop and worked on extending some story starts into short stories. My supply is running low since I spent the last three months working exclusively on my next novel manuscript. One of the starts feels like a whole story but it's very short, no, VERY short so I think it needs more words. I'm trying.

 

Today's flower is Foxglove. It was another one of those intimidating ones but it turned out to not be so bad after all. The coloring was challenging but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

 

I went on The Clearing's website this afternoon to check when the Watercolor class will be in the spring. I got kind of nervous when it wasn't in May. It's always in May but this year it's in June. And the class description talks about painting different things, summertime things. Should be fun! I've got to share the dates with my former neighbors to see if they're interested.

And my laptop weather thingy just said "Light snow tomorrow." Ugh. I figured it was going to snow because there were slurry marks on the streets when I went to the store today. They apply this stuff to the streets that really helps with making them not too slick. I appreciate that and the advance warning. I guess.

I got a call from GBB tonight that she heard from the DePere Women's Club that we've been accepted for their show. That's the show that's juried, so we're surprised and pleased to be in. Although that means we'll have two days of shows back to back one weekend in March. Yippee. We should be exhausted by Sunday afternoon. Let's just hope the weather cooperates.

--Barbara