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.

Garden Party

Maybe I should name this lone little fawn....

who I just happened to look out and see.....

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having himself a party....in my garden...

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He was standing in the middle of some wild daisies.

I approached slowly and he didn't appear frightened...





but he did hike his tail.....





and ran away....




leaving my garden a little empty and boring.....




except for yellow lilies and yarrow...I just have
a few purple flowers in bloom...

Most of the Coneflowers still look like spiky buds....

so the garden is a little plain...well, except for a

mysterious face in the ornamental grass...My

son discovered it Sunday...while enlarging a photo

on last week's post....Can you see it?

After clicking on photo to enlarge...the statue like

face appears half way up...just below the plumes

of the tall ornamental grass...

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While some of the family was leaving Father's Day...

we saw the Mother and three fawns in the field.

Remember them?

The fawns kept her there several minutes....

nursing...and then they too...went away!

At least they aren't eating my Hostas this year....

not yet anyway.

Even with all the rain and moisture in the air...

I still have to water the potted cherry tomatoes

on the back porch every day...sometimes twice.

This end of the porch takes you to the back yard...

where the other tomatoes are planted and a small

water fountain for the birds is located...

You may be able to see a Finch sipping water in

this blurred photo...I took through the window.

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A birdhouse is located back here too...

the Carolina Wrens use it...

they are working on their second nest...

of the season.....

also back here....sometimes we see

Woodpeckers on the trees.....

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...and in the trees!

sometimes you may also find.....

Alivia...in a hammock!

Doesn't she look like she's day dreaming.....

...maybe about a "garden party"...