Hummingbirds

It's March and there are new hatchings of hummingbirds, making life around the feeder a little frenzied.  They are like phone calls - they all seem to come in at the same time, but it's particularly busy at the end of the day, when they stock up for the long night.  Oftentimes, these little birds will sit side by side and take turns drinking from the same spot.  When they are full grown adults, they are not so cooperative.

Be sure to look carefully and you'll see my cat, Teddy sharpening his claws on the bench while a hummingbird (that bright red dot near him) hovers nearby.  I've never seen my cats catch one of these fast birds, nor even try.  Yesterday, Mattie was at the kitchen door telling me that her bowl was empty and a hummingbird hovered near and pointed in her direction, seemingly curious about this big creature.  She never batted an eye.

Back home and busy

We've had such great weather since we've been back, that gardening has taken up most of my day.  I unpacked my lovely fabric purchases from Sri Lanka, but here they sit on my work table.  Time to get them put away and the way clear for some actual work.   Our quilt group retreat was 2 weeks ago, and I started on the Life Marks project, using a photo I took at Sigiriya.

First, the mess:

Yes, I really did bring most of this stuff back from Sri Lanka - oh, it seems such a long time ago already.  The photo in the foreground, of 5th century ruins at Sigiriya, has been altered in photoshop and I'm using it to construct an abstracted version for my Life Marks project.  Now back to cleaning.

Last shoppng day in Colombo

Let me just say, I bought fabric, and an extra suitcase. We went to the
Pettah market area, and they were plenty of fabric stores, stores with buttons and ribbons and a young man who was delivering refrigerators to stores by carrying them on his back!