Lazy Days

Today is a lazy day - sitting here quilting or reading or watching the birds out my window (too hot right now outside for me - and no breeze).  Poor birds - it has been so hot they all are sitting around in the shade too, just panting and drinking water from the birdbath.  At least we are getting back down to seasonable temperatures after today - maybe it will hold out for the rest of the summer - and then the birds, and the humans, won't be struggling so much.

Hummingbird at feeder right outside my window.

American goldfinch sitting on a dead coneflower pod.

Make sure to take time out to have a lazy day every once in a while - otherwise, look what you miss.
-Kat

Early Taste of Fall

What a wonderful treat!  Just got my Autumn edition of The Cottage Journal magazine last week and, I was thinking, it sure doesn't feel like Fall when temperatures have been in the 100s with lows in the high 70s or 80s.  It has been another brutally hot and dry summer for us here in Oklahoma (as in many places).  Anyway, Thursday we had a front come through and it is 65 degrees this morning.  The owls put on a symphony for me while I was sitting out on the patio.  And now as the sun comes up, the birds are flying giddily around enjoy the coolness. 

So, even though it is supposed to be close to 100 again today, we were given a wonderful taste of Fall and a reminder to have faith -  comes to this hot weather too shall come to pass. 
- Kat