Good Morning Starshine, the Earth Says Hello! Desert Finch Hatchlings

Well it's that time of the year again and spring has sprung!  Long story, but there was a little nest above my patio and year after year, the little finch family would visit, the little eggs would appear, hatch and then the little ones would fly away!  I believe these are the local desert finches.  The males can have a bit of a reddish color and the females are a darker tan to brown in color.

There was a previous nest up there and year after year, it got higher and higher and it had become rather messy as well.  I wondered how they would be able to even get in and out of the nest because it had become a high rise?

They have replaced the old nest with some pretty snazzy new construction.  The first photo will show some of the many different types of grass and clovers the mother used to craft her new home.  I believe there is even some chihuahua hair up there!  This photo was taken around March 10th.

I had taken some photos of the little speckled blueish eggs in the nest around March 20th and some last Thursday.  I heard the little, tiny chirps earlier and had a feeling the eggs had hatched.  I was right and they were up there all fuzzy and waiting for mother bird.

I used my i-phone to take the photos and they came out really great.  I didn't have to get too close and the results were pretty clear.  Nature photography is so much fun!

Life happens fast, so enjoy every minute of it!

On the Bench

I milled some oak leaves on a lighter gauge of metal for this project.  Currently working on sawing out several leaves.  These need filing, sanding, shaping and so on...  There are various steps to finishing these to make them look more like real leaves.  The impressions are on both the front and the back of the pieces.  The real natural leaves may not fully align, but you will see detail on both sides.

New Pieces for The Store

I finished up some items and dropped them off at The Store the other night.  There was a great vibe at the arts center with a festival going on and artists doing demos for the visitors.  I walked in right when a lovely person was looking at a necklace I had made.  She took that one home and a bracelet as well.  The weather has been so beautiful and it was just a pretty night!  The photos are of The Store, some of the sterling earrings I dropped off, the stairs down to the museum and the ones up to the metals studio.

Breezy Beauty!

It's a beautiful, breezy day here under the Ponderosa Pine canopy.  It's a good place to relax, recharge, think and dream!