fare thee well

goodbye for now to these busy little beauties; the monarch is now in central america somewhere and the bee...well, to his hive, i guess, to hibeenate. bad joke. sorry.

i really miss these winged critters in the yard and garden. but luckily we have lots of winged finches, chickadees, cardinals, etc., who will hang around en masse as long as we continue to feed them. the little ones especially like shelled sunflower meats and battle for position at the feeders with a vengeance when they're filled with meats--they must know it's instant energy with no wasted calories used for the work of dehusking the seed. we have so many birds at our new house; even the occasional urban hawk will hang around the many feeders in our yard in the depths of january, just waiting to swoop down on a couple ounces of defenseless chickadee.
we are headed to door county this weekend for our annual anniversary get away---b and b, wineries, apples, sour cherry pancakes (i hope), and walking the shore. it's 30 years on the 5th!!