For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Good morning once again to all of you! It is a fabulous morning here, mild, with the sun shining so beautifully. The sky is such a deep, rich blue this morning. The tall ash trees in the neighbors yard are swaying gently against that blue background, it looks like thousands of emeralds glistening in the sun. Summer mornings. Such a beautiful time. Sitting on the deck with my morning coffee watching the goldfinches at the feeder with their young ones and the purple finch family at the other feeder. The hummingbirds join in showing up at their feeder periodically. There are at least 2 males and 3 females, though I’m sure there is likely more, but that is what I have seen all at once. Though no more than 2 actually are at the feeder at any one time. Any more than that and, um, some discussions arise.
I often wonder how people get pictures of 5 or 6 of these hummingbirds at a feeder all at the same time. I have never had that happen, usually only one gets on there at a time or fighting erupts. Or should I say, discussions erupt. A family of white throated sparrows are around daily now and the male sings his beautiful song every morning and evening. There isn’t much singing anymore among the birds, not even the robins sing much now. When I go for my walk it is silent. Two weeks ago it was alive with smaller birds, mostly warblers, singing all along the path. Now those birds are gone. Packed up and headed south. But the chickadees and nuthatches have flocked together, so they are usually around somewhere along the path, but not the large numbers that were around last year at this time. There are some flocks of sparrows too, they should be around for a while yet, but they are not singing, just little chirps here and there. And some days there is not a sound of a bird back there. Seems so strange.
Summer mornings. Coming to an end. For our pictures today are two flowers, same type just different colors, but I do not know the names of them. They are odd looking flowers, I call them alien flowers due to all the antennae sticking out in every direction. But they are interesting flowers, if you know the name please let me know. I hope you all have a beautiful day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
Beautiful πΊπΈ
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Thank you Saba, I hope you have a wonderful day! Even though it’s almost over so we’ll add in tomorrow too!ππΊπ
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Alhamdulillah! It’s a wonderful night. Have been longing for rain since ages finally it’s here with all thunder πββπ
Sweetie is enjoying rain π»βπ»she loves thunder shower β
Have a meowous and bemeowtiful day with Muffin π»ππ»ππ»
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That’s great to hear! Rain is a necessary and beautiful thing. That’s nice Sweetie likes the thunder showers. Poor Muffin doesn’t, she gets so scared.
We actually need rain again, it’s so very dry in the forest and fires keep starting.
Thanks Saba! I hope you also have a meowous and bemeowtiful day as well, or night right now!ππΈπ»π»
Muffin says ‘hi’ to you and Sweetie!πΊπ»π»
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Hi! Muffin π»
Why you get scared when you have such a caring humanπΈ
It’s just water with light show that pours down on us from clouds ππΉjust think about shower, you won’t get scared thenπ
Inshaallaha! You too get good cloudy shower πβπ
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Meow, meow!=Don’t like loud noises,π they go boom and crack, very scary, not like it at all!π I stay with my human when it is really bad storm, he keep me safe.πΈπ Smaller storm I hide under bed!πΉ
Tomorrow night we might get some thunderstorms, hopefully not bad ones though.π³πββ Enjoy your Friday!ππ»π»
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Stay safe dear Muffin πΈπΈ
God bless you both π€
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Clouds have already arrived, we might get those storms earlier than they said!
Thanks, God bless you too Saba!ππΈπ»π»
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Clouds are gathering here too for a thunder party βππΈ
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Our clouds moved away after giving us just a few raindrops.πππΈπ»
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Here we are having a good shower right now ββββ
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Our clouds disappeared and the sun is shining again. Maybe tonight we will get some rain.ππ
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Inshaallaha!π€
Don’t worry Muffin your human is there with you πΈ
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Poor Muffin must have had a bad dream a few minutes ago, she woke up suddenly and came running over to me meowing and wanting to be cuddled.ππ»π»π»
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Might have been a thunder dream ππ sending you lots of love and blessings dear Muffin. Don’t worry all shall be well πΈπ€
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Meow, meow!=Thank you!!πΊπ»π»πΈ
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Meoooooooow π€
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Really pretty pics!
Have a wonderful day!
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Thank you Lydia!
Enjoy your day as well!
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You’re welcome!
Thanks. I am so far… Babysitting!π
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Good for you, that’s always fun!
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Babysitting is fun!
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Beautiful, I love the pink colour. Thank-you Steve!
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Thanks Saania! Hope you have a fabulous Friday!ππΈπ
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How beautiful the flowers are that you have shared today ! It must be great to have all those hummingbirds around…πβοΈβοΈ
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The hummingbirds are fun to watch, but very hard to get a good picture of them! Have a nice evening!ππΈπ
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Nice start of the day, lovely flowers. π
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Thanks so much!
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we’ve still got six weeks of summer… hopefully…
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That would certainly be nice. I can remember it happening here once, nice summer weather until Sept 15, then it suddenly changed. But even if we make it until the end of August it would be nice!
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I guess every extra day of summer is a bonus…
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Yes indeed! I’ll take every extra day possible!π
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I’ve ever saw hummingbirds two years ago in Beniarda, a sleepy village deep in the valley of Spain. They were so cute! I tried to take a photo and it was hopeless they’re so fast and comes out blurry huhu π
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You saw them in Spain? I wonder how they got over there? Perhaps an experiment by someone to see if they would survive in Europe. That is really interesting!ππΊ
It is very difficult to get a good picture of them, having a feeder for them makes it a bit easier.ππ·
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According to the neighboor (note: there are only 500 people living there from what I heard) someone owned those hummingbirds but they of the cage so they’re now running free haha π
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Yep, that happens, now if there was a male and female then Spain could end up with hummingbirds all over the country! Now that would be cool.π
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Haha too bad I couldn’t ask those four if one of them is male π
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If you hear them knocking on your window one day you’ll know there was one!ππΈ
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Hahaha π I highly doubt they’ll knock on my window but it’s a nice thought π
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Better than bears knocking at your window!π³π»π
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Oh my gosh, I remember that happening to you π±π
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Yep, me too!π³π»π€ͺ
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Morning Steve!! I just finished doing my chores and I am soooo TIREDπ΄π΄
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Good morning Maryam! Afternoon now for you I guess, maybe evening. Enjoy it anyway!ππΈ
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Yeahhhh!!!!!! I was about to go to sleep soooooo night thenπ π
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It’s night! Good night Maryam!ππΈπ»
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……………. Now it’s morningππ
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Lovely pics Steve!
It’s raining so much where I live! It’s the monsoon season so it’s really rainy!
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Thanks Eshal!ππΈ
That’s something we don’t get.
We just get that other season I don’t like to talk about.ππΉπ³π
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Lovely pics, Steve! It’s still summer in my neck of the woods. Our temps have been tolerable compared to some that are in the 100-110 range F. Enjoy your warm weather while you can. ππΊ πΈβοΈβοΈ
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Thanks Eugenia! Yes, your summer would last a lot longer than ours. Every day past mid August is a bonus for us! Looks like we might get thunderstorms later today.ππ³πββ
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