One Bird at a Time

Birds visited today. One at a time. First this Sparrow landed on the square green feeder and spent a little time pecking away at the seed, first facing the feeder and then with its back turned so it had to turn to the side every time.

 

Then this Robin scurried across the lawn looking like it was listening for worms or something. When it wasn't behind the crooks its back was to me so I waited and got this partially obscured photo of it. Right after I snapped the picture the Robin pounced on a peanut half in the grass and ran off with it.

 

When I was having supper a Chickadee landed on the square green feeder and stayed long enough so I could take its picture too. It also spent part of the time facing the feeder and part of the time facing away pounding a seed on the perch.

 

I went out to refill the birdbath and checked the rhubarb. It's sprouting! Even though it's on the north side of the house and never gets sunshine this early in the year, little pink rhubarb sprouts are peeking out. Hooray! That means in a month or so I'll be able to make rhubarb sauce to put on my breakfast yogurt. It's my favorite.

 

Today was an artsy day. First off, I drew a Sea Turtle out of the new drawing book. I can't remember the name of the book but it says it has over 1200 pictures to draw. Maybe she's counting all of the steps to draw each one? I'm not counting but there aren't 600 pages in the book so that's my guess.

 

Then I decided to paint the next flower in the 31-day course on Creativebug. It's a Pincushion Protea. I'm surprised at how well it turned out. The leaves along the left side of the paper are messy looking but I like the flower.

 

And after supper I sketched another Sea Turtle from a watercolor painting that the watercolor teacher gifted me last spring. I keep wanting to try to copy it in a painting but then I lose my nerve. Maybe someday I'll get brave.

 

Once again the end of the month has sneaked up on me so I spent most of the afternoon writing my monthly writing progress newsletter email, finding a picture to put on it, and sending it off by email to KM to upload to MailerLite to be sent on the 1st. Then I spent some time posting event advertisements on both my Facebook page and my author Facebook page. Marketing is never ending.

--Barbara