Beauties

Design - "A Year in Chalk - August"

Designer - Hands on Design

Fabric - 30 count WDW Gunmetal linen

Fiber - GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 30 August 2016

Completed - 1 September 2016

Here's a couple of real beauties!

Okay, maybe they aren't beautiful.

They are very useful and are graceful fliers.

Sunday's Hummers

All about Anna's

 

Saturday's Critters

I've had a couple of bear incursions, but all my photos are of deer.

 

White-breasted Nuthatch

Design - "August"

Chart - "Summer and Winter"

Designer - The Prairie Schooler

Fabric - 28 count Lambswool linen

Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 21 August 2010

Completed - 30 August 2010 

White-breasted Nuthatch

I see these birds far more often at the front of the house, than the back.

But this guy found some suet and was active at the back of the house.

Typical Nuthatch pose

Got a BIG bite

Thanks for stopping by

Chestnut-Backed Chickadee

 Design - "August"

Chart - "A Prairie Year"

Designer - The Prairie Schooler

Fabric - 32 count Lambswool linen

Fibers -DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads - watermelon seeds 1 strand smyrna crosses

 Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Everyone is thirsty

So stinking cute!

Atop a rose

Chow Time!

A little nibble

Wednesday's Walk

It's too hot and too smokey to walk today.

So here's what I can see from the back porch.

A couple of turkey vultures circling.

 

Hazel brush

Tansy Ragwort 

Pretty, but toxic to cattle

A juvenile towhee

Green berries on a Hawthorne

Douglas fir green cones dripping with sap

Back indoors now where it is cooler.