Molting or Injured or Both

Design - "Uncle Sam"

Chart - "Seasonal Mementos III"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric - 32 count Sandstone linen

Fibers - GAST & DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24 July 2014

Completed - 27 July 2014 

If you are squeemish...go no further.

Here's a healthy Steller's Jay.

And this poor bird, not so much.

Molting?

Injured?

Or both?

Amazingly it could still fly and it was eating...

Are the Sharp-shinned Hawks responsible?

Single Bird Celebration

Design - "Uncle Sam"

Chart - "Seasonal Mementos III"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric - 32 count Sandstone linen

Fibers - GAST & DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24 July 2014

Completed - 27 July 2014

I changed GAST "Mulberry" to "Cranberry" as I found the original color far too orange/brown for my tastes. 

Single bird feature today.

It's a Red-breasted Nuthatch.

It's unusual for one to stay still.

This is perhaps my favorite of this series.

I think they look inquisitive.

I'm glad to have them around.

Christmas Cookies and Birds

 

Design - "Christmas Cookies"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric -32 count Amber Wichelt linen

Started - 6 September 1999

Completed - 12 September 1999

I bought this chart in Ogden, Utah at "Shepherd's Bush" cross stitch store after admiring the one they had on display.  The gals there had modified the color scheme from the original chart, and they provided me with the conversion which I then followed in my own stitching.

Not much to share with you today, but this bird is one I'll probably see on Christmas day.

A Junco!  Notice how the male Anna's photobombed my shot.

They love to eat Bark Butter as well as suet and seeds.

Little Birds Mostly

Design - "Uncle Sam"

Chart - "Seasonal Mementos III"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric - 32 count Sandstone linen

Fibers - GAST & DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24July 2014

Completed - 27 July 2014

I changed GAST "Mulberry" to "Cranberry" as I found the original color far too orange/brown for my tastes. 

My email server did an update recently and I lost a couple of day's worth of emails.  I think someone asked about my camera - it's a Canon SX540HS.  It has a very powerful zoom lens - you can Google it if you want more information.

Generally I'm pretty pleased with the shots it allows me to take of birds - like this young Cowbird.

Having a drink.

Male American Goldfinch

Here's a young Junco.

It was attempting to eat the leaf from a sedum.

I had a large group of little Bushtits come to the suet.

They chattered and flitted and ate.

They always lift my spirits.

Nine birds in this photo.

Close-up of a female.

Deer Deer Monday

Design - "Uncle Sam"

Chart - "Seasonal Mementos III"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric - 32 count Sandstone linen

Fibers - GAST & DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24July 2014

Completed - 27 July 2014

I changed GAST "Mulberry" to "Cranberry" as I found the original color far too orange/brown for my tastes. 

On my walk earlier last week, I startled a group of five deer including a doe with twin fawns.

A curious young buck held ground for a moment to give me a once over.

Then he too dashed off.  When I headed up the driveway the doe and bedded down in a meadow with the twins and I startled them all over again. My sister said that young family was bedded down in our backyard Thursday night.

We have three young bucks at the moment. 

They are all in velvet.

The dandelions are very popular with the deer and the bunnies.

This doe seems to find something or someone amusing! 

Here's the third buck with just the littlest of nubbins!

After getting this post ready for publication Sunday afternoon, look who showed up Sunday evening!

Yep, the doe and the twins.

What's the one fawn looking at you ask?

Quail - very curious about the quail.

The twins are pretty good-sized. 

The spots have faded a bit, but they are still adorable.

Time for an afternoon nap!  Sounds like a good plan to me!

One year ago today Mom and I visited the Courtauld Gallery.

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Christmas

Design - "Christmas Cookies"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric -32 count Amber Wichelt linen

Started - 6 September 1999

Completed - 12 September 1999

I bought this chart in Ogden, Utah at "Shepherd's Bush" cross stitch store after admiring the one they had on display.  The gals there had modified the color scheme from the original chart, and they provided me with the conversion which I then followed in my own stitching.