It's usually when the feeder is occupied by some of the more noisy birds, tussling for position, that this one will sit and watch. It's been hard to catch it in a photo because it doesn't sit for long, and I'm usually clumsy and loud about getting the camera ready.
Finally I got the photo by leaving the camera set up on the table, pointed at the jade plant so that all I had to do when my friend arrived was to reach over, push the 'on' button, then the shutter. A little grainy from the zoom, but there it is!
After a day of writing I just had to get my hands on those rocks! I played until it was too dark to see what I was doing. It's a good thing I stopped, too, as there's one there that's sitting too proud and will have to be re-set. No amount of pounding with my rubber mallet will get it to sit lower on that corner, so, biting the bullet, it will get pulled today.
I love how the river rocks give way to the flagstone. Soft edges meet hard corners. And all the colours in the stone...it's amazing. I can't wait to get it all in so that I can clean it up a little and let the colours glow.
As usual, this is going together in an kind of unorthodox way. I figured that this sand is all pretty hard packed because we walk on it all the time, it's been under that piece of fake grass you can see folded up to the side. As the rocks are not all the same thickness, there's not a lot of point in me excavating everything to the same depth before putting the rock into it. I've been working with my line level to ensure that the walking surface is flat and level (slight grade toward where the lawn will be, as I want it to drain that way), and scraping out the area for each group of rocks as I go, putting sand back in and pounding the heck out of it when I need to, and pulling more out when the rock sits too proud. It's a slow process, but very satisfying.
Well, I should get back to writing - er, writing what I'm supposed to be writing!
Happy Saturday,
Lisa
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