Quietly Busy

It's been a quiet day...not much going on

outside this window...except for...

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a Downy woodpecker that keeps drinking at

the hummingbird feeder.

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and this Dove quietly sitting out back...
trying to figure out just
what happened to his fountain with the rocks...




that he and his friend use to sit on.



Besides changing the water fountain

which isn't quite finished...

I've just been picking some basil..

and deadheading the flowers when I can...

...between the alternating days of rain

and sunshine...some days I find the

coneflowers very wet.....

and some days dry...like this one with it's

straight level petals...

this one with it's droopy swirl of petals...

or this one with it's in between petals.

This morning as I went out for my walk...

I headed toward the field...

where my grandson Grant had camped out

the night before...Knowing he wasn't up yet

...I quietly took a photo and moved on...

A few days ago I found the field again to be...

quietly swarming with bees of all kinds.

There are over 10 bees in this photo alone.

Some made me think "Beeware"

while others were just beautiful and "Beebusy"

Today I found the field to be very wet

with a heavy early morning dew...

that even the blackberries could not escape.

At the other end of the field...down by the barn...

the hibiscus was wet and blooming...

with many buds yet to open...

I walked on to check a very old pear tree in

the woods at the beginning of the drive...

it's branches were loaded down with fruit.

Then I noticed a young robin

quietly sitting in the wet grass...just

sitting there...waiting...

not wanting to fly just yet.

Then ending my walk and heading back home...

guess who I saw...the two friendly fawns...

playing in my flower garden again...

but I also noticed someone

quietly watching over them...
The Mom...

so I cautiously turned into the field...

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I've learned that these two friendly fawns are

actually 2 of 3 fawns I see sometimes...

the third fawn stays closer to the mom than

these two that roam on their own sometimes.

Anyway, since I was in the field...

I picked a handful of blackberries...

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before going home back across the field...

but I did stop to take a photo of

this Balloon flower...

this soon to open Blackberry Lily and...

a video of...

Mom and her three fawns...

and I then...went quietly inside.

Field Day

Granddaughter Alivia was here earlier today...

Guess what she wanted to do...pick the sunflower!

It sprouted after being dropped by a bird...

eating at the feeder on the back porch.

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The feeder hangs extra low by the kitchen door...

I convinced her not to pick the sunflower just yet,

but to watch the birds come to the feeder...

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while she played with some bubbles in the sink...
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Later we went out toward the field to pick
the few remaining raspberries.






One day after going out and heading
to the field...




I came across this turtle in the drive...




after moving him to a safer place in the grass...




near the bed of day lilies...



by the large oak tree...

with the friendly face...

I went into the tall grass to look for changes...

every few days it looks different.

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There were plenty of grass seed heads forming...

several different types...

-Umbrella Sedge on right-

different wild flowers were blooming...

some pink...

-Field Milkwort-

some yellow...

-Virginia Yellow Flax-

some white...

-Virginia Mountain Mint-

if one didn't look close one might miss...

many different types of insects...
some spotted brown...

some black with stripes...

some golden brown

and some bees and butterflies...

of all sizes...

There were more types of bees than butterflies...

but the butterflies were prettier.

The bees had a special beauty though...

they looked large and healthy.

I often wonder...

do the deer who love playing in the field...

and hiding in the tall grass.....do they ever get stung?

Here's a video where I think that just

might have happened...