Somehow when I was toweling my hair dry yesterday, I stuck my thumb in my left eye and it's been irritated and sore all day. I've no doubt that my physical well-being is of little interest to most of you but, well, this is a blog, afterall, so I don't feel too bad about boring you with minutiae like that.
Actually, I did have a point in bringing that up. I had intended to spend some substantial time in the garden and taking some more photos of my backyard birds but this eye thing made it kind of difficult to shoot the birds. Deanna got a fair amount done in the garden and I did manage to take a few photos, including several shots of our happy golden orange house finch (who is getting more orange and less gold these last few weeks) and one shot of his girlfriend. I also took a few shots of the golden-crested sparrows and a visiting scrub-jay. As it was getting dark, I managed to get a shot of a tiny little chestnut backed chickadee in one of our persimmon trees, too.
As with the earlier batch, these are sized down quite a bit from the originals because my bandwidth is fairly limited. If you're interested in larger versions, feel free to mail me.
