Isn't Nature Amazing?!?

Hi friends - just sharing very some lucky pics

I was able to capture showing nature around me.

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Sometimes it's a brilliant blue sky & green grass
 with the lovely color of pink set against it......

......And sometimes it's incredible winged life
thrilling me to no end!

I took these bird pics from inside my house

 with the window closed!

 I simply was doing the dishes!

I like to watch the birds

 at the most popular seed feeder closest to the kitchen;

we have many kinds of birds flying in and out all day long!

 The cardinals and jays are larger and more aggressive,

  we hardly see goldfinches anymore.

I miss them. They're just GONE.

However I noticed a red finch at the feeder today,

 so that is a fairly good sign they just may return one day.

There's always a place for finches here.

We put up the hummingbird feeder

 literally next to the kitchen window this summer, 

 and boy has it ever been fun watching them!

 We have a gorgeous green who  visits that feeder most often. 

It has a bright shimmery red ring around its neck

 that really sparkles in the sun...

yet he is fast and elusive so I have yet to catch him on the camera! 

YET.

I daresay it's a challenge and I play to win, birdie bird! Haha.

~~Buzz, buZz, buzZ~~

So our birds are such messy, wasteful and super sloppy eaters

 who spill most of the a great deal of their seed on the ground, right?

Well, I guess we now have our very own

 "Clean up on Aisle 6 Crew!" 

Yeup.

 Literally just a few steps from our kitchen window

 this hungry mommy dear and her two fawns

were munching on the spilled seed

 from the feeder you just saw above. 

I think they're neat, but I don't want them in my yard. Just sayin'.

We didn't have any rain for WEEKS and it's been so unbelievably hot and humid - enough to not be able to go outdoors nearly at all unless in early morning. Later when the sun is setting is a bit better, but then the skeeters eat me alive.

BUT we did - and have - been getting big-time rain. In fact now because of the heat it is a bit swampy and one can smell moulds and other foul odors. Sheesh. Feast or famine, right?

And it's funny because when the rains first started it would rain, then the sun would return, then the rain again, then be sunny again- we kept having strange odd pockets of storms.

Or there wouldn't be a single cloud in the sky except one little grey one, and it would be right over me and rain down for a minute or two.

But the neatest time of all was it would be super sunny,

 then would pour BUCKETS of rain while the sun was still shining!

I was able to capture it on the camera -

 but I cannot capture how ODD it all was to witness. 

My husband was outside when it started to rain, grilling chicken.

Being ME, I stood inside the doorway and took these pics-

 nice and dry and comfy!

Being HIM - he quickly grabbed one of our market umbrellas

 and wasn't daunted by that rain in the least!

He was a hungry man on a mission; no amount of water
was going to keep him from having this chicken.

We really expected a rainbow to appear during this,

 but then the sun was low in the sky enough that it didn't happen.

So....we just ate our dinner....AFTER he dried himself off, of course. 

By the way, we've lived here for 14 years and have bought THREE very expensive stainless steel gas grills. We have outdoor gas hookup so have never had to rent gas cylinder things.....however at about $700 each, those dang grills just don't hold up at all! They're stainless steel, yes, but they aren't ALL s/s!!!! The handles, interior, joints, etc. rust out in what seems in one season.

We'd been thinking of replacing our last one until shopping for it my husband found this one on the cheap- and he absolutely loves it.  SO for now we're back to an old fashioned charcoal grill.

He is content enough. He's the grillmaster, so when he's happy, I am happy as well.

It really is a nifty-neat barbeque, 

and will make an excellent firepit

] for our cooler autumn nights around the corner.

The garden roses are starting to be bloom again -

 but the daisies seem happiest lately.

PS: I am having a teacup, saucer & matching pitcher giveaway.

Just click here to enter. 

As always, thank you for stopping by!

Big hugs! 

♥

~Michele

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