This calf I believe was born the day before yesterday.
It is a tiny calf so more than likely it was premature but it seems to be getting around good and being quite active.
Texas sage & her beautiful blooms
The blooms of the Texas Sage are high contrast to the dull sage-colored leaves of the plant.
I love it when this plant blooms and it blooms a few different times of the year.
The beauty of a rose
The beauty of this rose is accented with a macro lens, dewdrops, and lighting.
I have posted this pic before but I re-edited and reduced the lighting and really like it a lot.
My Air Plant Display
I had been wanting some airplants for quite a while. I love how they look and they are fun to display in different ways.
Here are a few of mine but after I did the pictures I remembered that there were two more in our bedroom that did not get their pics taken.
I have them scattered through out the house in different locations.
I bought a large order of them and shared them with my sister Sheri. All the plants were in really good shape even though they were mail ordered.
They are a funny little plant I water these about every 5 days I find if not they dry out and start to shrivel. There is no soil, no rocks just some fake moss in a few of the containers for looks.
I made the concrete wire containers as well as the one on the stand. The shells and the salt lamp I already had.
Sometimes it is the tiny things in life that bring us such joy and can always put a smile on our face.
Purple showers and barbed wire
We have purple showers planted everywhere around here they are easy to grow and invasive so they spread quickly.
The scientific name is Ruellia simplex ‘Purple Showers also known as mexican petunia.
There is something about flowers, fence post and barbed wire that I love.
Bird bath party time
I have been taking quite a few pics lately of the birds having birdbath parties.
Out of the corner of my eye I spotted some very bright low and behold it was a Bullock’s Oriole. These birds are from West Texas not our area so its not wonder I have never seen one before. I had to come in and grab my Birds of Texas book and look him up.
Notice the water spraying across the picture from the action of the birds in the water.
I have seen him two days in a row and both times he was with the Eastern Bluebirds so I am guessing they are friends.
Since the birds seem to crowd into the shallow birdbath the most I am going to take my deep ones and turn them into planters and I will figure out how to have a trough type bird bath so 20 or so can get in at the same time. Just imagine the pictures with that.
Its so funny because there will be 8 in the birdbath and another 8 flying around waiting for the shallow birdbath. By the time they are done there is no water left in the birdbath.
I go out and refill it and they will come back while I am still outside.
I love my birds as much as my grandmother and my dad did.
Appreciate the beauty of nature it is all around us take the time to enjoy it each and everyday.
Our Duck Friends
The Black Bellied Whistling Duck were back last weekend.
I was able to get these pictures early a.m. it was so bright outside.
They sat there on this dead tree on the fence line and let me put out food in 4 feeders.
I was only 8-10 foot from them they never budged.
The red ones could be the parents of the rest with the whistling ducks the parents are similar in color. The juveniles did not have their color yet you can tell they were still young.
We mix black oiled sunflower seeds and chicken scratch & all the birds and ducks seem to love it.
Feed the wildlife and enjoy their beauty right in your own backyard. Once they get use to you they will pose for the camera.
These beauties come and go an sometimes come back a few times a day.
The Eastern Bluebirds
The Eastern bluebirds nested somewhere close by our house but not in any of our 6 birdhouses.I caught the dad and two babies in the birdbath yesterday.
I have been seeing lots of activity at the birdbaths due to the heat. They like the shallow ones rather than my deep ones but I added stuff in the deep ones but they are still a no go.
I love getting to see the young ones I have never seen the juvenile bluebirds before.
This really made my day.
Yellow Crowned Night Heron
This juvenile yellow crowned night heron has been hanging around in our pasture.
They say the juveniles will stay in the area they are raised for a good while.
We have had a lot of crawdads from all the rain and that is one thing they love to eat. You will often see these birds in the ditches hunting for bugs and crawdads.
Nature never ceases to amaze me and I truly enjoy getting to see her beauty in the wildlife that graces us with its presence from time to time.
