Last Week's Scratchings

Up here we anticipate the May 24 weekend

because that's when the humming birds arrive.

And guess what...

Last Monday at breakfast time

this little fellow practically knocked on the back door

as if to say

'We're back"!

A batch of nectar was immediately brewed

and then we hunted high and low for the feeders

Couldn't find them anywhere

Still haven't found them

Rushed out and bought a new one!

The next day a carload of tiny pots of this and that came home with us

and of course the trowels danced all day Wednesday

finding homes for them all.

On Friday the RP's and I found the biggest owl we've ever seen

watching us from the woods.

Then on Saturday our early morning trudge up the mountain

found us walking through low moist clouds.

My trail of daily scratchings 

trudges past purple cornflowers and hostas

in the early morning light

and nestles among columbines and primula

Flowery shadows fall on January's scratchings

Taking a turn across the hostas.