July is a month simply crammed with treasures. Bird and animal babies galore and blooms to enchant every eye.
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| A young rabbit amid an all-you-can-eat buffet. |
Ordered over a year ago, I finally received the handsets for my doors. My new doors were installed with temporary nickle plated knobs. The new, Venetian Bronze handles make a much bolder statement.
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| Before and after. Wimpy to Robust. |
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| Inside and outside views. |
Usually, I travel not further than to the grocery or hardware store and back. But when my friends invited me along on a trip to Almonte, Ontario I gratefully jumped at the chance! The attraction was the Bloomfest Garden Art Show, at the Whitehouse Nursery and Display Gardens. Their daylilies were at their best and just one of the reasons you could hear exclamations of "Wow, wow, wow!!!" from customers all over their gardens.
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| Amid a 2-acre bed growing over 1000 varieties of daylilies. |
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| My day's haul. Setting myself up for more weeding. |
Happy to say that the Barn Swallow couple successfully raised their brood of five babies. It takes only a short time before the fledglings are strong fliers and taken miles away by the parents to rivers for the best concentration of flying insects. So I was really surprised to find that two of the youngsters are still hanging around and roosting in my garage at night. Sometimes in the very nest they were hatched in!
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| Three of the cuties huddled for comfort. |
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| Looking skyward for their Mom and Dad. |
It was fun to watch and listen as the house wrens scrambled to raise their broods. Chicks calling for food and parents calling back to be patient. Hardly a moment of silence. The volume and variety of insects was very impressive.
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| House Wren family in Box No. 1. |
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| Youngster making it easy for food deliveries. |
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| Looks like more than one insect in this beakful. |
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| A black beetle delivered this time. |
And five more pics in this report for July.
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| A male oriole gathering jelly for take-away. |
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| The female gives my camera the eye. |
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| Song Sparrow cracking open a sunflower seed. |
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| Summertime means fresh flowers for the table. |
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| Ellie Mae showing her need of a comb-out. |
Whew!! Thanks for bearing with me. Sure did have a slew of shots to share this month!
