“On February 20, we celebrate National Love Your Pet Day, a day to embrace one special trait that makes us human: our love of our pets!” Source
The Sweetest Furry Faces
“That it will never come again, is what makes life so sweet.” ~ Emily Dickinson
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” – Roger Caras
If you don’t have a pet of your own, perhaps you have a backyard that birds enjoy. While wild birds are not pets, they certainly cost their weight in bird feed. We enjoy the show!
Good thing these female finches were keenly aware of their surroundings!
Only minutes later, this Sharp-Shinned Hawk swooped in onto our patio table for a look-see!
Then he flew over to the bird feeder where the finches had left only moments before…
I’m thrilled to have captured my first Sharp-Shinned Hawk with my lens! I love gawking at the bird photos on the Spokane Birders Facebook page, and added these images to the group page.
Yep, Another Road Trip
“Still, round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
This week, hubby and I are taking another road trip to Arizona and California to spend time with family and friends. We’ll drive home in late March via the Northern California coast and southern Oregon coast—places I have never visited.
Rather than stress about my weekly Sunday Stills posts, I am getting help from two wonderful bloggers and photographers who will host while I’m away. I’m thrilled to invite Cathy Ryan of Between the Lines and Susanne Swanson from Cats and Trails and Garden Tales to co-host Sunday Stills while we travel during March. Please follow their wonderful blogs!
This information is already published on my Sunday Stills page as well.
🌷 I will continue The Flower Hour each Tuesday as normally scheduled. 🌸
Sunday Stills Photo Challenge Reminders
Each week, I find additional inspiration from my fellow bloggers’ photo challenges. I enjoy incorporating these into my Sunday Stills weekly themes.
- Remember to title your blog post a little differently from mine.
- Please create a new post for the theme or link to a recent one.
- Entries for this theme can be posted all week.
- Tag your post “Sunday Stills.”
- Don’t forget to create a pingback to this post so that other participants can read your post.
- I also recommend adding your post’s URL to the comments.
As a challenge host, I always appreciate your comments. If you participate, please leave a comment with your link; they’re always read and appreciated.
If you are participating in the photo challenge, I look forward to seeing how you interpret this week’s theme! Creativity is encouraged, so please share your own photographs (old or new), poems, original short stories, and music inspired by the theme.
I will still post for The Flower Hour, but having them handle Sunday Stills will give me a bit of a break. Here is the schedule, themes, and who is hosting during March.
Mar 1 NO CHALLENGE
Mar 8 Seascapes hosted by Cathy Between the Lines
Mar 15 Monthly Color Challenge: Jade Green, Peridot hosted by Susanne Cats and Trails and Garden Tales
Mar 22 Early (Celebrate Equinox: Spring or Autumn), hosted by Susanne
Mar 29 Your Favorite Places, hosted by Cathy
We plan to return home a few days after Easter (April 5th). Sunday Stills resumes April 12 with the Monthly color Challenge “Diamonds and Quartz.”
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