Eggs and Flowers

Last Spring I posted a photo of the Fringe Flower shot through a little clear diamond of glass in our leaded glass front door.  This year the flowers aren't as dramatic, but . . .

if you look really close in the bush, well hidden, is a Cardinal's nest.

Momma Cardinal is diligently sitting on the nest, keeping an ever watchful eye, 

and she will hunker down and disappear if you walk close, but not too close, or she will spook and fly away.

Occasionally, though, she must leave on her own, and during one of those times I opened the door, got a little closer, and saw two "soon to be" Cardinals, still in their shells.

Dove Update

I recently showed you a dove that had built her nest next to the window at church (here).  Well, now, two weeks later, we have one egg shoved to the edge of the nest and apparently abandoned.

But we also have a young dove sitting in the bushes close to the nest.

Ugly little fellow, but life goes on.