Photos of the Day...

Smile...!

Hummingbird Moth
taken today 07.21.09
aka Hemaris thysbe - Hummingbird Clearwing
(thank you BugGuide.net)

Here's the HIGHLIGHT of my every day...

The Be All, End All
My Chum

Flea Market /Resale Shop Finds...find a new home...highlights of the day

This is THE MOST fabulous little lamp!
Itz retro, itz AQUA!
(had to have it & if you understand, you can be a friend)

Photo sans 2 wire bird cages & wooden type
(must remember to not back out over birdcages in garage)

Quite a day & rain did NOT impede treasure collecting! Small Asian figures, old calipers, child's cat plate, linens, old wooden hangers from a New York hotel (a Bing Bing hotel)...

3 birdcages (found one yesterday w/stand at a garage sale...also a 3 ft. mermaid...had to have it!) , old handmade wooden napkin holder, the smallest pair of Mexican feather birds w/May Co. labels, a huge tray of wooden type (oh what a find!) and the lamp...if I take a photo of anything it will be this lamp...funky, retro with an aqua plastic shade, glass base. Itz the bees knees!

A good day concluded with market stops (marinated eggplant slices, melons, Portuguese bread...) and a little Italian meal with the Canon Fairy.

(if something doesn't make sense itz because the pics were added the next day)

Perfect Summer Days...

I had just spoken to a fellow gardener/nature lover of not seeing any hummingbirds thus far, this year. Just standing near the sink, the sound of the house wren made me turn to look out and there it was...hovering over the hanging impatiens. And THEN...zoooooom! Joined by another! NEVER ever ever in my almost 60 yrs. have I seen a pair of hummingbirds! In the last few years, I have seen a hummingbird at rest and I swear I stopped breathing both times.

Hummingbirds were followed by a pair of black-capped chickadees at the small bird bath...their mee mee meep sound unmistakable. Cat bird (there has been a pair here since Spring) arrived thereafter and the yard is a sanctuary with bunnies and birds.

I caught a good close look at the adorable house wren when I heard an unfamiliar bird sound...a constant clucking communication between two birds...almost a sound of agitation and there it was. Yes, reddish, a little speckled, a little striped and with quite a vocabulary. They also have THE most beautiful and lengthy song for such a tiny bird. I am honored to have them nesting in a gourd hanging in my ancient dwarf pear tree.

These last two days have been THE MOST purrrrfect of summer days and I made sure to pry myself away from art to sit in the summer sun reading, languishing, listening...

...life is good !