My Sunday memes -Green Thumb and Unconscious Mutterings follow. I wanted to first show you our new bird feeder and our first known guest arriving[images can be enlarged]……
During the week, I asked Bud to add this box I found at a garage sale while doing my walking for the day last weekend–I asked him to make a new bird feeder for the yard. You may remember that I bought a ‘squirrel proof’ feeder for the patio a few months back? And then, the crafty booger found a way to get to the seed? Well, I gave up. I didn’t really care for the feeder on the patio either. Tho the cats in the house loved it at its location, the mess the birds made on the patio and the patio furniture was getting to be a bit too much to keep up with it; cleaning up after them if you know what I mean. So, thoughts of having a feeder back out in the yard somewhere kept running through my mind.
When I spotted this small wooden box I thought it’d be ideal. Squirrels be hexed! They can come munch all they want. LOL It was nicely painted with small country images along the side, tho there were leather handles on each side which I cut off when I got home. Bud found a medium sized scrap of thick dowel and braced it below for the birds’ weight and then bolted it on from the inside of the box connecting it to the dowel. And ‘planted it’. And once I saw a white winged dove come perch on the patio’s wooden butterfly by the dining room window, I figured he was in search of his feeding spot. I went outside and as I came through the door and stepped on the patio –I saw him sitting on the electrical wires above. While he was still there, I went out and emptied a bit of the sack of feed into the new box, as he watched every move I made. I then stepped under the patio lattice work and waited, with camera in hand. Eventually he christened the feeder!!
Play along with your subconscious; Sunday’s Word Association.
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She says … and I think …
- Notification :: SUMMONS
- Cheat :: Exam
- Top Ten :: Oldies but Goodies
- Draft :: Notice
- Unbelievable :: Shocking
- Cheap :: Absolutely Nothing!
[not even dirt these days --as in 'dirt cheap'] - Spontaneous :: Combustion
- Harass :: Heckle
- Lipstick :: Lip Gloss
- Transpire :: Develop
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This week’s Green Thumb photo I share is taken with the marco lens on the digital. Bud says he’s surprised I got this close to a bee! [I'm allergic to their sting] But, none the less, I had the opportunity to capture this close up of one that was ‘hard at work’ collecting pollen!
The bush is called Texas Sage. It has a woody formation of light colored bark, very thin and branches are quite fragile unless the bush itself is rather old. The leaves are a smoky green…at a distance they look silver. In Tucson, the legend goes that it blooms only after a rain. Which I found to be true after living there for a dozen years. But here, in Texas, it blooms often. After rains, before rains, and even during the winter months. [Guess maybe it has to do for the fact we have it in a raised flower bed and it's all watered often with the sprinkler system set to water a couple times a week....s'pose?] The blossoms are quite pungent tho…reminds me of ammonia or perhaps a bed pan….if you get my drift. Quite unpleasant for some reason only known to mother nature.
Anyway, the flowers are miniature – orchid like in a way. Purple-pink. And a beautiful contrast against the smoky leaves. I also have a red Don Juan climbing rose planted just under its canopy near the root ball of the sage; the rose is twisted and clinging to the sage branches and makes for a great focal point in the summer with the silver, the purple flowers of the sage and the red velvet of the rose.
A girl, born with feet that were ‘backward’ learns to walk after successful operation!!! The video link here is short. But what a story of will and drive in a young girl. Amazingly she walked in 1/3 the time the surgeons and doctors predicted!!!
