Final Day of the Week.......

It is an abstract shot for the first photo today.  The water in the pond reflects everything above it.  As I went out to feed the fish I found the container that I had left out there on a fence ledge had been opened and eaten by some creature.  I rinsed out the remains into the water and all the small fish that I bought last weekend were up and ready to eat.

I didn't ask for specific colors of fish when I bought them so the helper could just run her net through the water and drop them into the plastic bag.  I ended up with ten instead of eight and that was a nice bonus.  I like having different colors of goldfish otherwise they all just look alike. The spots you are seeing are created by fish food floating on the water.

I am glad that one of the fish is yellow gold.  I saw a koi for sale there that was metallic yellow but I resisted buying it.  I like having koi but they tend to jump out of the tank and die on the floor when I am not watching. I guess I did have them jumping out of the water onto the ground and that is when I declared them off limits. 

In the bird world today is this photo of a young cardinal.  I have young bluejays showing up at the feeder also.  If I had an adult eating at the feeder at the same time you would be able to see the size difference.  I don't know how long it takes them to be full size but I bet it won't take very long.

Also in the bird world in my yard I have photos of the mourning dove family.  I saw two eyes up there yesterday and ran to get the camera.  The zoom helped me to see what was up there as it is pretty high in the tree.

I also ssw the second chick as I walked around the tree.  I shared these photo on my photo a day blog. It was amazing to see how two days ago the adult was hovering over these two.  It was funny looking and i  still didn't have any idea how big the chicks would be.  This afternoon while I was out there, the adult was gone and only the two youngsters were home.




We are all back from the vet visit.  A bridge was being worked on when we got part way there so we had to make up a gravel road bypass of our own.  Some poor lady's cat was very sick so we had  a long wait to see the vet.  Button went first while I stayed in the car with Barney.  I did invent a platform to help get Barney in and out of our backseat.  He can't jump that distance anymore.  He liked it and liked it more when he got out of the car.  Barney always flirts with the help and gets treats.  Barney had lost some weight, that was good and Button lost two pounds and that was bad.  All in all the visit lasted twice as long even though we were very glad that the sick cat got the attention that it needed. Button only had one shot today as the vet thought he was too thin to take both shots at a time.  We will return for his rabies shot next month.  Barney took both shots and was glad to be outh of there.

The hardy geramium really did weather over well in the house.  A few rain shoers and this planter is looking great.  I did get out and cleared a weed patch this morning.  It got too hot so I had to quit and will finish tomorrow. I am hoping by the end of them month that I will have the major messes cleaned up on the property.  I did notice that the bush cherries are ready to be picked.  We make jelly out of the juice.  It is time consuming to pick them so that may happen tomorrow.    I wish everyone well and thanks for stopping by today.