What they say about nature is true!

Who knew?

Happy summer to those of you in the northern hemisphere. Happy winter to those in the southern!

It’s been really pretty here, though dry. I wouldn’t mind a long, soaking rain. The grass is brittle and crunchy. The weeds are doing fine, though. Thriving.

And, of course, not realizing we’d be having a drought, my husband and I decided to plant things this year. I don’t know if we just got to be A Certain Age or if it was just that we were finally getting the opportunity to do it after some pretty major house renovations in 2021 — that included the collapse/removal of some of our older water systems outside, therefore making certain areas available for plants. But once we were done with the inside of the house, my husband turned to the outside and started imagining what he could do.

Well, I wanted a bird feeder. That was last year. I told him to just give me a bird feeder on a hook and stick it outside my office window. He scoffed and built a small area with two bird feeders, several potted flowers, a bird bath, and some cat figures.

This year, he decided we needed trees. It turns out the land across the street from us, currently home to many of our birds, is for sale, and since it’s zoned commercial now, whatever company buys it will almost certainly cut down those trees and then our birds will be homeless.

So . . .