Friday, June 3, 2011

We Are All About Birds Today

I took "Bluebird Sampler" with me on a road trip up to Portland Monday.  I was able to make a nice start. The alphabet uses GAST Simply Shaker colors which gives a soft muted look to the piece.

Many of the birds outside are anything but muted these days! 

I was lucky to catch a hummingbird at work in the Fuchsia. 

The male Grosbeak in unashamedly vibrant!

The Band-tailed Pigeon's coloring is a quiet Quaker Gray.  The birds though are  anything but quiet.  We now have a group of 35-40 of them - way too many!  A friend calls them Aircraft Carriers (size), and they can wolf down a day's worth of bird food in fifteen minutes.

I'd much rather have 35-40 California Quail!

I caught this Hummingbird resting on the Front Porch.

He then flew up to eat amongst the blossoms of the Fuchsia.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures. From your stitching and your garden birds. Bluebird sampler looks already lovely.
    Love also your blog header. All those bee's and bee hives are looking great

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  2. Your sampler is coming along nicely...I know what you mean about the birds...I spent the better part of the morning feeding them all!

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