No Squirrel Today

Only birds. The most interesting birds were these House Finches that visited the Oriole feeder. No Orioles anymore, they've moved on, but the House Finches love the orange half and grape jelly. I was lucky enough to catch the male flying up to the grape jelly while the female waited on the orange.

 

Then there was this Robin prospecting for tasty morsels under the feeders. I watched until it flew off but it didn't pull up a worm.

 

And a Downy Woodpecker visited the suet cakes for the third day in a row. It didn't pose as nicely today as it had the last two days but it was good enough to be posted.

 

The Stella d'Oro lilies are still blooming mightily and not one flower to a plant anymore but many on some of them. This is just one of many, some coming, some going, on one plant. If you look closely, you can see yesterday's flower shriveled up in the lower right up against today's flower.

 

I'm watching this Dad's rosebud, waiting for it to open. I'm tempted to cut it and bring it inside so I can sniff it whenever I want to but then it won't last as long so I'm going to leave it on the rosebush and go outside to sniff. No one will notice if I'm outside sniffing flowers a few times a day, right?

 

Today's experiment in painting Iris was not as successful as I'd hoped. I fell back into my old habit of not waiting for one step to dry before adding the next one, not even using my fancy new heat gun. I'm such a disappointment to myself sometimes. I guess I'll paint an Iris again tomorrow and try to do better. Probably should have done a big one and a little one like KA had us do in class last week.

 

Both of the Book Funnel promos I joined the other day have started a day early. One is called Beach Reads and it's a sales promo for ebooks. Follow the link to check out what's offered. 

And if you're an audiobook listener, like I am, this one's for you. It's called the Official Soundtrack of Summer. There are over 50 audiobooks on here, 5 of them are mine. Click the link to check out the list.

There. Earlier I listed the promos on Facebook and now the links are on the blog. I'll include them in my July Writing Progress Letter and a couple more times on FB. I wonder if I can list them on Instagram. I'll see. They're both sales promos so no newsletter signup is required, just an opportunity to buy ebooks or audiobooks. Marketing, it's never ending.

--Barbara