“On February 20, we celebrate National Love Your Pet Day, a day to embrace one special trait that makes us human: our love of our pets!” Source
The Sweetest Furry Faces
“That it will never come again, is what makes life so sweet.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras
If you don’t have a pet of your own, perhaps you have a backyard that birds enjoy. While wild birds are not pets, they certainly cost their weight in bird feed. We enjoy the show!
Good thing these female finches were keenly aware of their surroundings!
Only minutes later, this Sharp-Shinned Hawk swooped in onto our patio table for a look-see!
Then he flew over to the bird feeder where the finches had left only moments before…
I’m thrilled to have captured my first Sharp-Shinned Hawk with my lens! I love gawking at the bird photos on the Spokane Birders Facebook page, and added these images to the group page.
Yep, Another Road Trip
“Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
This week, hubby and I are taking another road trip to Arizona and California to spend time with family and friends. We’ll drive home in late March via the Northern California coast and southern Oregon coast—places I have never visited…