Jaci Dawn

This is my third attempt at a post tonight. I should just throw in the towel and go to bed because that is what my poor aching muscles want to do and that would be the wisest decision. I can blog another time.

But I’m just stubborn enough to want to get this done.

Here’s what I did this weekend:

I finished putting up bamboo screening across the back chain link fence. We can no longer see the neighbors clearly. The dog run is going on the shady side of the shed. My prayer garden is on the sunny side.

I set up the tripod and took several photos of the Full Flower Moon. This is the only photo that came out. The rest of them looked like I was trying to photograph a halogen headlamp.

I played in PhotoShop and Paint to make a collage that I call “The Yin & Yang of Dog” (even though both dogs are male and Harvey really is the same size as Murphy – it’s all camera angle).

I got a good photo of the Black-Headed Grosbeak.

I did not get a photo of the defiant little Pine Siskin that would not get off of the bird bath so my husband could mow the lawn. But it’s etched in my brain: my husband standing in the front yard with his hands on his hips, nose to nose with a tiny little bird that had a definite attitude.

“I am not going to move and you can’t make me!”

When the bird did move, my husband moved the bird bath. And the Pine Siskin dive-bombed his back. “Take that, you lawn-mowing, bird-bath moving bully!”

I played with my camera, trying to capture the angles and shadows in my yard. This was my favorite.

Now the weekend is done and I am going to bed to rest my sore muscles.