miscellaneous

heat, heat,and more heat was ever present for the last few weeks.  it was summer before spring had an opportunity to shine.  over the weekend, the heat broke and it's been marvelously cooler since.  perfect weather for sipping tea and watching the hummingbirds, gold finches and other friends of feather that visit the farm.  imagine my excitement when, yesterday, i verified three hummingbirds visiting the feeders.  wow!  that's one more than has visited the farm over the last several years.  this morning i thought i saw a fourth hummingbird!  this has not yet been confirmed; it could be a wishful sighting on my part or just confusion in the very nature of how the hummers zoom from feeder to feeder and feeder to trees.  however, the time will come that will allow for independent verification of the new visitor.  my friend has over 200 hummingbirds visit her many, many feeders.  certainly there needn't be that many here for happy hummer viewing, however, more than one or two sure increases the pleasure of watching these amazing little creatures.  this time of year much of my conversation revolves around hummingbirds because they are so delightfully whimsical.  are you feeding hummers as well?

marvelous milestone.  the whimsey project has reached and exceeded 100 followers!  we love our twitter community and invite them to visit the blog!  everyone welcome!