They're Back!!

Thursday was a lovely warm day here in my part of West Virginia. When I say warm I mean a wonderful balmy sixty-nine degrees - in February! Late evening I looked out the sliding glass doors of my sunroom and saw robins. Yes, as in more than one. I grabbed my camera and quietly as possible I moved out on to the deck. The light was going pretty quickly and they were pretty far away but I was able to click a few photos with my zoom lens as I watched about ten of these little guys feasting in my yard. I had hoped to get a better photo yesterday but I didn't see any and as it we will be about twenty degrees cooler today I don't blame them if they are hiding. I'm just glad they're back and forecasting Spring!

Three's Company

And yes, there's even a little bit of green grass!

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The Robin Tells of Spring

What the Robin Told

The wind told the grasses
And the grasses told the trees.
The trees told the bushes,
And the bushes told the bees.
The bees told the robin,
And the robin sang out clear:
Wake up! Wake up! Spring is here!
~ author unknown

And so, it's time to:

Throw off the winter jackets

Toss the woolly mittens

Store the winter boots

Pull on the shorts and T-shirts

Slip into Crocs and Birkenstocks and tennies

Don the Ray Bans and baseball caps

Turn off the TV

Go fly a kite

Lay on your back and watch the clouds silently floating by.

Ok, O-K, I know it's only the FIRST day of Spring but it could happen, will happen somewhere.

It will happen here even if I have to sit in front of the fireplace in warm toasty socks with a sweater around my shoulders and my eyes closed and head thrown back against the couch and I have to daydream and PRETEND - it WILL happen TODAY!

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!!!

Raven's Saturday Wordzzle Challenge

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Time again for Raven's Wordzzle. Anyone new to the challenge can go here for more information.
This is my mega challenge with all fifteen words:

Beau and Laura had met in college their sophomore year. As it happened Beau’s fraternity was holding a fund-raising event to help purchase a new Wizard 500 Telescope for the science department and Laura’s sorority was holding a walk-a-thon to benefit a local school that had experienced a salmonella outbreak. They had met while standing in line at the Office of Student affairs to get the final approvals needed for their organization’s activities. At first they had a luke warm reaction to each other but over the next few weeks soon found themselves drawn to each other like Esther and Ben Hur.

Now in their junior year they found themselves on the way to the Sugar Bowl with a few of their best friends all of whom were wearing brand new cotton T-shirts proclaiming their school’s team as number one!

This trip was going to be a challenge for Beau. He wanted to ask Laura to marry him. He and his fraternity brothers had cooked up an elaborate scheme for a proposal. An invitation for Laura had been sent ahead by snail mail a week earlier to the hotel where they would be staying. It would be given to her when she arrived in her hotel suite. It would invite her to attend a reception after the game to purportedly help surprise Beau with a prestigious fraternity award. However, when she arrived at that destination only Beau would be present and dinner would be an intimate setup for two with lots of sparkling cider which was Laura’s favorite drink.

Beau was sure Laura loved him and would say yes to becoming his wife. He could almost bank on that. What he wasn’t sure about was her reaction when he would tell her he wanted to drop out of college and become a master carpenter. He’d just have to wait and see. He didn’t have time to be melancholy. It was his turn to drive and it was a long way to New Orleans.

And, look who's back!

Yes, they are finally back in my neighborhood. I had been lamenting that everyone had seen them but me. Finally on Wednesday morning there they were.
I just love to sit and watch them cock their little heads and listen for worms and my, oh my, don't they grab them quickly!
I couldn't get very close so this isn't as clear as I'd like it to be so I had to play with the image just a bit. Today on my photoblog I have posted this image with some dry brush effects that I'm liking pretty well. If you have time I invite you to go have a look.
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Watch the Birdies!!!

Mr. Blue Jay actually posed long enough to get his photo taken. He is such a flighty bird!

Mr. Robin listening for his lunch.

Mr. Cardinal tries to hide behind the yucca plant. I see you!

This Blue Jay fell for the old throw out a piece of bread trick!

Maybe, just maybe, this little Robin had too many worms!

Singing Out the News

What the Robin Told

The wind told the grasses

And the grasses told the trees.

The trees told the bushes,

And the bushes told the bees.

The bees told the robin,

And the robin sang out clear:

Wake up! Wake up! Spring is here!

~ author unknown

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

~Robin Williams