Weekend Snapshots At the Lake

First Bloom of 2016

The Spring Snowflake

 It was cold and windy. Old Glory blew all weekend.

 Lidia and Sawyer spent the weekend with us. Lidia is strong and healthy.

Sawyer has been sick...he is being treated for pneumonia. He played outdoors, 

but would stop and rest ever so often.

 There were plenty of birds staying for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

 She is a first for me.....female Eastern Towhee

 Mockingbird 

 I had a left over white pumpkin from Thanksgiving. It sure lasted a long time and I thought the birds might enjoy it. The seeds were a little big, but I thought they might find the fleshy pulp tasty.  Apparently not! That or the birds were scared of big white chunks laying up in their feeder. They finally started coming around, but didn't eat a bite of the pumpkin.

A male Cardinal and a male Eastern Towhee, which is another first for me.

Lidia turns 12, tomorrow. We celebrated her birthday last night at Saskatoon's in Greenville. It is a wild and exotic game restaurant.  Some ate Kangaroo, some ate Buffalo, Elk, Alligator and Venison. The birthday girl ate Emu.......I ate Salmon. 

It's been in the thirties all day and we've been having snow flurries, since lunchtime. 

The flurries picked up some this afternoon, but I'm sure there won't be any accumulation. None-the-less, I was a happy girl to see flying snowflakes. 

Laurie

If I Build It, Will They Come?

I've been longingly looking at your bird photos, swooning over their beauty. It made me want to shoot some photos of birds in my own yard. But guess what? There is a severe lack of birds in the neighborhood! As in, none!

I made a comment on a blog post of Betsy's that I have not seen many birds this winter....Cardinals usually visit, but I have not seen the first one. And then I had a bird epiphany and said, "I think I should put some food out for them. That'll probably do the trick". And she agreed by saying, "lol...yes, food would help"!

Ha!

So, I went about buying and making some birdfeeders. I'm building a place for birds to visit, have a little dinner and maybe move in for a while. I still need to get a birdbath, but I have an idea to make one. We'll see how it turns out. I'll share it, if I decide to use it.

New birdfeeder and little acorn shaped birdhouse.

 

The birdfeeder has been filled with yummy bird goodness.

 

 

Close-up of the sweet little dragonfly adornment.

 

The acorn birdhouse, awaiting it's guests.

 

And the birdfeeder echoes the sentiments of 'come and get it'.

(See the open window.....it was in the 80's today)

 

Maybe what they long for is a little color,

 

Or....this delicious birdseed concoction to calm their hunger.

 

 

And for you....some pre-spring color in this yellow forsythia.

 

Happy Wednesday Y'all,

Laurie