The cicadas are certainly pretty loud this morning, making one feel, its in the middle of July, but in fact, its almost mid September, the sad end of summer. I know the pretty birds from the southern countries are flying back home very shortly. I enjoyed them so much this summer, I looked forward to coming home after a long day on the job, to sit by the pool and admire my flowers or when a hummingbird would appear. Some of them would fly right up to me, and stay there, gracefully flapping their wings with a kind, thank you for having them over for sugar water all summer.
I painted this old hummingbird feeder with red oil paint to attract them since my pine trees are so overgrown these days. I thought, will they see it? Do they just scent it?
It really does work! 4 cups of water, and 1 cup of sugar. Boil and then pour into the feeder. At first I worried they wouldn't come and I tinted the water with red food coloring. But I found even without the food coloring, they still come.
So as sad as it sounds, I realize summer is coming to an end. But not yet..no I still have another few three weeks to pretend its still summer. All the bakery girls are closing their pools. I don't want to close mine.
Especially when my flowers are still in bloom
Not only did I come and enjoy the pool garden at the end of the day, on my days off there was no other place I would rather be, then to take my paints and sit under the shade of the umbrella and paint. It is such a relaxing way to spend the day.
But I had a lot of visitors this summer.
The benefits of living in the country.
He stayed all summer.
Like my niece use to say when she was a little girl,
"can I come back tomorrow?"
Pretty soon fall will be approaching.
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