Scenes From a Backyard

This fine crop of sunflowers sprang up beneath our bird feeder. Thanks, birds!

One of the sunflowers has nine blossoms on one stalk. I’ve never seen this before. It’s very cool.

We’re spending a lot of time in the backyard these days. This morning I packed a bag full of sketchbooks, colored pencils, watercolors, stuff I found around the house. A set of Sandra Dodd’s Thinking Sticks I bought a couple of years ago, some Trivial Pursuit cards, a pencil sharpener. Borrowed Jenn’s BRILLIANT idea of cut