Sunday Pic Spam - birds, buds and left-overs.

[curiouswombat]

It's Sunday - it's pic-spam day.

Yesterday I went to see Mum, go out for lunch with her, shop, the usual. And for the first time I actually managed to get a picture of birds at her bird feeders - usually I only have to think of getting the camera out and they all disappear!


Also yesterday D-d arrived home for a fortnight - very tired and in need of a little coddling and cuddling. She drove from York to Heysham and brought Po (her wee car) home - the amount of books she needs to study from over the fortnight would have taken her into excess baggage by air without bringing anything else!

After going to church, she and I went to Tescos and stocked up on healthy food, and then I have done a small amount of garden tidying - so I took some pics of the small signs of life in the garden.

Also, I have been looking at some of my picture files from the past year, especially at some of the pictures that I didn't use as a 'picture of the day', but they are still worth sharing... left-overs! Today I chose three that have lots of green in them - to remind us that there really will be leaves and more flowers soon!

So - click for


Birds - as you can see, Mum simply has bird-feeders pegged to the clothes line -



A goldfinch and a sparrow caught in the act!


Now for signs of spring - out in the yard we have tiny leaf buds unfurling - or just sitting there...

One of the blueberry bushes -



The clematis -



And the pear tree -



Down at ground lever things have been moving - last week I had this picture of one of the hyacinths - this is the same hyacinth today -



These are close ups because they are pretty - and because most of the surroundings are still plain compost and empty pots!


The scillas -



And the Glory of the Snow - which actually waited to flower until the snow was gone...




And now, three pictures from last summer to remind me that, although almost all the trees are still bare, the place will be greener soon.







Taken in early May, mid-June and September respectively.



I'm off work this week - I plan to ... well not do an awful lot really! Go to the garden centre to see if there are any bedding plants in yet, go out for lunch with D-d and Mum - and S2C if he wants to come too, go to Church on Maundy Thursday, finish the current chapter of the Winter Tale, and hopefully finish the whole story, but that might be pushing it a bit!

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

These are just beautiful. Hope you have a lovely time with your daughter.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I think I get her to myself on Wednesday... She works hard at maintaining her friendships with the people here and has a big circle of local friends, either others who are still away in higher education or those who have stayed when they left school. So today she is going out with someone for the afternoon, tomorrow she is meeting a friend to shop and have lunch, Thursday is lunch with another friend and the evening out, Friday seems to be booked from 12MD to the early hours of the morning and so on!

Still, I see her for breakfast, and it is good that she is having some 'social time', so I don't mind at all.