We haven't officially started summer, but the last few days have certainly felt like it. It's been hot and humid and just not nice to be outside. It's also been raining - enough that most of central Virginia seems to be under flood or flash flood warnings. So glad I don't have to go anywhere this weekend.
No new species of birds at the feeders but there are new birds.
The one on the right is baby woodpecker (these are downy woodpeckers). I haven't been able to get a picture of the baby cardinals (there's one sitting in the bushes looking in the window keeping the cats attention) or house finches. Honestly there could be lots of babies out there but if they come in alone it's hard to tell. If they come in with a parent, they sit in the bushes or on the feeder and flap their wings and beg for food. We've also had a doe with twin fawns come through the yard. I don't like living so far away from things, but all the wildlife (I've seen a red fox, a grey fox and a coyote the last couple of weeks) is fun to watch.
Along with the heat and humidity and young animals a sure sign of summer is my stitching slump. I am having a hard time getting myself going with my stitching (but not knitting, all I want to do it seems is knit - which doesn't seem right with all the heat).
Despite the slump, I have been stitching almost every night the last couple of weeks - I try to put a length of any color in each evening. All I've worked on is Winter Hearts. It went from here:
to here
