Coolness of the Northside

Woohoo!  We got our first rain in ages yesterday afternoon!  It lasted all of about 5 minutes, but a little rain is better than no rain at all.  Hope it's a sign of wetter things to come.

Life on a Front Porch

If you were to step onto my front porch right now, you would likely be greeted with a cheery song (or a shrill warning) by the latest tenants to take up residence.  About a week and a half ago, I discovered a cardinal pair had built a nest in the lighting fixture hanging just outside my front door.  The light hangs far too high for me to see inside the nest.  Faced with a quandary whether or not to remove it, I wrote a post about the situation last Friday.  In the end, I did leave the nest alone, for I noticed that Mama Cardinal was already roosting quietly and seriously on that nest.   When I awoke this morning, Mama was up and about and flitting around busily collecting grubs and worms.  Then I saw her fly to the nest, and though I didn't have a great view, she appeared to be feeding babies!

Cool and friendly-like

Please forgive me, but when I spotted a green tree frog as I stepped outside yesterday, Kermie's signature song jumped into my head and wouldn't get out.  Then, as I walked around the garden, every other green thing just jumped out at me.  So today, I celebrate that most banal of colors...green.  Commonplace or not, that very perfect mixture of blue and yellow surely can lift the spirits!  Cool, refreshing, reviving to the soul.  What would our gardens be without it?  Red and yellow and purple and pink are lovely, wonderful really, but how odd, how stark it would look without green carpets and green-painted walls to buffer the rainbow!