A Fledgling?

Design - "Summer Hive" (Black Sheep kit)

Designer - Ewe & Eye & Friends

Fabric - 32 count Cream Graziano

Fibers - DMC

Started - 1 February 2003

Completed - 13 September 2003

This is another framed piece from my Bee Collection.  It first glance it appears pretty straight-forward, but it has several speciality stitches.  The entire skep is made up of "long" stitches rather than cross stitches.  The base has Rhodes and Smyrna stitches.  The center of the sunflower is stitched over one (rather than filled with French Knots).   

 

A female Flicker

A male Downy Woodpecker

It might be a fledging - in that case it could be either male or female.

Same with this "guy". I think it is a newly fledged Flicker.

Waiting...and Nesting

 

Design - "Bee Skep"

Chart - "Garden Beasties"

Designer - The Prairie Schooler

Fabric - 25 count white Dublin linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 6 June 2014

Completed - 8 June 2014 

I think there are two active Violet-green Swallow nesting boxes. 

This is one of them.

The male is resting outside.

The female is inside.

Hang tough everyone.

Sunday's Hummers

When the salvia "La Trinidad" is in bloom, it is preferred over my nectar feeders.

It's what's for breakfast! 

Saturday's Critters

What do we have today?

A pretty good-sized snake

Probably a bull snake

A squirrel

Another one

And a doe

Brunch time!

Singing and Watching

Design - "Bee Skep"

Chart - "June"

Designer - The Prairie Schooler

Fabric - 32 count Lambswool linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 15 May 2013

Completed - 20 May 2013 

Singing

A Towhee

Watching

A male Flicker

A staff meeting?

Band-tailed Pigeons

Up High Down Low

I absolutely had to get a couple of Cottage Garden Sampling's pretty monthly series framed.   

So here we go!

Designer - Cottage Garden Samplings

Design - "June's Honeysuckle"

Fabric - White Chocolate linen

Started - 17 September 2013

Finished - 5 January 2014

Framed - August 2014

A rather simple gold frame that picks up the colors in the bee skeps.

I had a kettle of seven Turkey Vultures soaring overhead.

Not sure way so many gathered.

Often it means that there's a ready-to-eat meal on the ground.

This group ended up flying away to the south.

Down low the crow pair made an appearance together.

Wednesday's Walk in a Week

Another lovely day for a walk. 

Cow's Parsnip

Blackberries

Grass

Blackberries

Robin

Robin

Ninebark

Cow's Parsnip

Cow's Parsnip

Vine Maple

Serviceberry

Cow's Parsnip