♥ Baby bird!!! Eeeeeek! And this and that on Sun.

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(Baby Cardinal, beside pool...) 

Early in the morning, I saw 'something,' out my kitchen window...  It turned out to be a fluffy, baby Cardinal.  We kept an eye on it, and it hopped all around the edge of the pool.  No Mama Bird in sight.  Nothing we could do for it.  Eventually, it had "disappeared."  We hope it hopped into the greenery, around the pool, and that Mama Cardinal managed to get-it-home, where ever that may be. 

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A just-because-I-can-photo.  ,-)  We love the inside parking, at a newly redone downtown grocery store.  Obviously, you enter/exit at that "blob-of-bright-sunlight."  ,-)  Park your car in well lit parking, enter the lovely new store, down there beyond the last gray vehicle.  Returns (cans, etc.) go to the right.  

It's super for summer, so your car does not get over heated, sitting in sun while you shop.  Great in rain, and will be great when winter weather comes again.  

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(Just a pretty-play of shadows and light, in early morning...)

I'm still reading books by Mary Stewart...  This present book  ("This Rough Magic") was first published in 1964, so that was a whole-different-time.  And one of the things I've noticed...   The heroines never worry about eating!!!!!  -chuckle-

That may not sound like much, but think about it...  In books of today, the heroine is usually fretting about her weight and what she's eating.  It can get in the way of the plot, almost...  But we kind-of accept it.  Like we kind-of accept that Hollywood actresses are SKINNY as MODELS.  

But it's really quite lovely to read about gals who are perfectly happy in their own bodies.  Their bodies are young bodies, of course.  And once upon a time, having a young body was all you needed.  Once upon a time, no one was preoccupied with calories, or with *burning them off* with working out, etc.

-happy sigh-  It's quite lovely to return to a gentler time.  :-)))))))))))

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(Just a pretty gray row house...)

LOVE this row house!!!  Love it's paint colors, pots of flowers at street level, etc.  But...   -Hehhhhhhhh-  This is "Auntie" posting after all.  You just KNEW there had to be a BUT, didn't you?????   ,-)

But!  Why didn't they keep with the color-scheme????  Why did they hang those pots of flaming RED flowers?  Flaming RED, clashes with every thing else.

"Auntie" is not pleased.  

And she can assure you, the home owners don't care a bit.  -gigggggles- 

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(Pretty Balloons, which look like a bunch of grapes...)

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 (Another shot of the new-but-built-to-look-old apartment building...  From the back, this time)

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(Make way........  For DUCKS...)

We are still stuck in an almost stationary weather system...  But my barometer has finally started to rise.  Granted, all the on-and-off rain has been needed.  And very welcomed by flowers and veggies.  But........   -Hehhhh-  Another But...  ,-)

Everything enjoys some sun too.    

Like the Racing Meet, for instance.  :-)

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"To the fairy land afar

Where the Little People are;

Where the clover tops are trees,

And the rain pools are the seas,

And the leaves like little ships

Sail about on tiny trips."

~~H.T. Johnson

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