This morning I got up and my head is feeling marginally better but since I have been in this allergy/drug fog for the last 4 days I was wondering what in the world am I gonna write about today? Maybe I will have to post something in the afternoon and maybe something interesting might happen that I can talk about, or maybe something on the today show will grab my interest. I was stretching and opening the curtains, making coffee when I noticed the cardinal outside. For a couple of years I have been watching a male cardinal in our neighborhood. I don't think he lives in any of our trees, but it certainly comes for the feast of crackers, cookies and pb&j sandwiches that sprinkle my yard every evening. My Grandma Bette loved cardinals. She had paintings of them and needlepoint with them and I specifically remember an outdoor ceramic bell chime that she hung indoors and I always brushed my hand along it when I came and went down the hallway. Kelsey used to have me pick her up so she could make it chime. She loved it too. I was talking to my husband the other day because I was asking if it is the male or female that is all red...because lately I have seen another male, female, or baby...with red on top of head and red beak but brown feathers with little spots and it is smaller. So off to wikipedia I go because this morning the cardinal outside was the small one, I am almost certain now that it is a baby female! I wish I could get a good picture of it...it is soo cute and it was eating a worm and wiped its little face on the driveway. Thanks Grandma for the material. I looked it up and here it is the female northern cardinal...can't tell if it is young, it looks young! This is a stock photo from wikipedia because I don't have an SLR...maybe I should work on that!
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