Steve`s Country
For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
Daily Pics 2020, #66.
Good morning on this beautiful Friday! Grab a cup of coffee and join us once again! Muffin is flying again this morning. Amazing how fast she can run around here, up and down and across furniture, right past plants and glassware, insulators and games, and she never breaks anything. I can walk carefully and slowly past a shelf and something falls on the floor. What’s with that? We had that new snow yesterday which naturally covered my big platform type feeder. No big deal, there’s no one around this winter using it anyway. So I didn’t bother to clean the snow off. Until I looked out the window because I thought I heard a familiar sound. Sure enough, there was several evening grosbeaks out there looking for food, on a snow covered feeder. I went out quickly and cleared the snow away and put out fresh sunflower seeds and…too late. They all flew away and never came back. Sigh.
Now it’s time for some nice friendly squirrel pics for us to enjoy…
Early morning and mama was tired already, guess the babies were up all night again.
Mama chip giving us a cute smile as she takes a short break from her breakfast.
Reddy always liked to come and hang around for her breakfast each morning. I’m still amazed at how she could do that. She had 4 cute babies, only one looked like her, the other three were a darker brown. Well, there we have our smiles for this Friday morning, I hope you have a great smiling day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
Nature’s Art, #27.
Hello once again everyone! How are all of you today? I hope you are having a nice sunny day. I know that some of you are already enjoying spring and some of you are already in full summer. And some are still in winter like we are here. We had another 3 1/2 inches of snow overnight. Not a lot, but it made everything look very white again. Then the sun came out, which is very nice, but also incredibly bright shining off that new snow. It’s actually very hard on the eyes, sunglasses are a definite plus to wear at times like this. But even though the temp is still not warm enough to melt the snow, it is still melting anyway. That sun is warm now that it has moved so much. Yes, I know, it isn’t the sun, the earth is moving, changing it’s tilt which means the sun’s rays have a greater impact than in the winter. That means it’s melting outside, there is water on the street, and on my deck. So, it looks like spring even though it isn’t yet. But it’s coming!
And now, for our look at art in nature and continuing with our look at mushrooms…
There was a lot of these weird looking mushrooms in one area along my path, looks like something rather alien looking. Though I don’t know what they are, it seems that similar mushrooms are not a good idea to eat, so I would think the same for these.
And another tiny mushroom growing around a very tiny twig. The top of the mushroom is about 1/2 inch (just over a cm). Another very common mushroom though. I don’t know if it’s edible, but being so small it wouldn’t be worth the trouble picking them. And there we have some more interesting mushrooms for our enjoyment today. I hope you have a great day and God bless!
Steve and Muffin.
© 2020 Steve McLeod.
