Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Sunshine

The sky is blue and white, like faded jeans, from high, thin clouds.  The male house finch likes the hummer feeder. I don't know if it is drinking from the center well or catching bugs in the water.  It looks like it is piloting a flying saucer.  Sparrows and Carolina wrens have been scurrying around.  A female cardinal is sharing the seed feeder with a male house finch. 

A mockingbird was hanging out in the front yard when we got home. When K went out front to get the garbage cans, a pair of brown thrashers fled to the back yard.  A robin tried to get a drink from the swimming pool cover.  A white throat was snapping up bugs from the rosemary flowers. Pecan and hackberry are beginning to bud.

As the sun descended, menacing clouds swallowed it.  I thought we were in for a storm. But on my way back three hours later, I saw the bright first quarter moon in the midst of a swirl of clouds. 

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