Sunny and Cold in the Garden

Hello there!

I's beginning to feel a bit like the winter that wasn't in the garden. It's cold and sunny but you can still see patches of the lawn everywhere but in the shade of the trees where we've still got a bit of snow. The only visitors to the garden have been squirrels, cardinals and goldfinches.

I discovered yesterday that we can put art on a wireless computer mouse and I thought that would be the sort of gift that almost anyone could use. I made quite a few of them and plan to go back today to make mouse pads to match them and see what other computer products are available. Who knows, I may design whole collections of them.

When I finish that I've got a nice little wooden box that I'm painting some dala horses on. I think it would make a great gift filled with some of the tiny dala horse ornaments that I was painting earlier this winter.

Goldfinches

Today's Birds in the Garden

Goldfinches

Goldfinches and bird feeders for them

The goldfinches visit a lot more often since we bought that thistle seed feeder (that's the long tube with the bright yellow ends) It was inexpensive and already filled, all I had to do was remove the tape and insert the perch. I like the look of this much more than the the mesh fabric feeders we used to buy and this was only a few dollars more. The really important thing is that the birds like it more and visit much more often than they used to.

As gray as our weather has been lately a bit of bright yellow flitting through the garden is a very welcome sight.

I plan to cut what's left of the tulips today and do some drawings of them and can hardly wait for the rest of the flowers to bloom.