I am very excited because we have bluebirds here in Arkansas. I have never lived anywhere with bluebirds, and now we appear to have a pair nesting within sight of our bedroom window. The house behind us (with the shed where Creamsicle holed up during her AWOL stunt last fall) had a large garden with a few nesting boxes, and that is where I have seen a male bluebird several mornings now. Alas, they are just a bit too far away for my digital zoom, so all I get are little blue blurs when I try to take a picture. Instead,
here is a picture from
Bill of the Birds that is pretty similar to what I can see through binoculars (picture from the April 3rd blog entry).
We also have carpets of
crimson clover along the roadsides that I am dying to take pictures of. Alas again, it is only on the roadsides. I may have found a patch that I can reach safely for picture taking - if i do, you will be sure to know. For now, the pictures on Wikipedia will have to be enough.
Remember a couple of weeks ago I mentioned that we had a bluebird within sight of our bedroom window? And that I couldn't get any good pictures of him? Well, I finally did manage to get a couple of good pictures of him, and even more miraculous, I found time to get the pictures off of the camera. Isn't he cute? Now, if only I had a telephoto lens, so I could get a real close-up.
It rained on us all weekend, and by rain I don't mean Seattle-style drizzle rain, I mean buckets. At least 3" by Saturday afternoon. It was good to go through the pictures on the camera of sunny days just a week past and remember that it won't always be so wet.
