The candle came from San Xavier, a mission I love to visit and now and again light a candle there. Years ago, we had bought this one. Easter seemed a good time to light it. It burns for 3 days with the request still being heard. The mission figure, we bought, 20 years ago, at a small shop that brought them from Mexico or Central America. The dancer came when people were allowed to sell crafts along roadsides. It was a great time until local government stepped in to say they could not...
This is a terrible time for me to write something here. Like so many, I am stressing, uncertain, not sleeping well, not interested in much of anything except watching the birds or out my window at the mountains. If something takes deep thinking, I'm out of there. That complicates a blog or my writing for books. I know it's depression, and it makes total sense. I don't want you to think my life is terrible. It's that I am one with anxiety issues even at the best of times and maybe too empathetic. I'd be better off to put my head in the sand, but I don't do it.
So, more bird pictures. The baby quail are coming out to explore life. Although we'd been watching, we missed when they first were here. On Thursday, they already had their topknots and the first feathers. The photos below represent two families. Cute, aren't they. The gila woodpecker was caught stealing hummingbird sugar water on a wildlife cam. We had set it out to figure out why the water was going down so fast.
So what do we do besides this? Well, Ranch Boss has outside projects but we both value naps... You can take a boy out of the ranch but the boots just don't go off even for a nap... although that is a blanket he put there to protect the bedspread from the cat's dirt (they go outside to roll in the sandy dirt).
6 comments:
Especially like the picture of the nap.
Love the baby quail pics! Your gila woodpecker reminds me of our flickers, but it is probably smaller. Birds are so smart!
Loved the pics very calming and hubby makes me want to take a nap even though I slept until 10 am!
I never would have thought that a woodpecker might be tempted by sugar water...very cool! I love the quail pictures, too.
Naps are great, and one thing I am appreciating about our current situation of lockdown. I always work from home, but in normal times I like to get out of the house by going to the grocery store every day on my lunch hour. Now I’m shopping once (maybe twice if we need milk) a week, so lunchtime can be reserved for a nap. Very nice.
I’m sorry that you are suffering anxiety. These are indeed very anxious times. Hang in there is all I can think to say. :)
thank you, J. Anxiety is a weird thing as it does not require a reason. I began with this in my perimenopause years. Hormones maybe. It's just worse when things really are bad somewhere like now.
Sounds wise that you distract yourself from the current world events to focus on wildlife, the fascinating desert with your camera. Really enjoyed your photos.
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