Last week I woke up early and went out on the deck to watch the sun come up.
I love this time of year when it's comfortably warm in the day time but at night and in the early morning it's crisp.
Later in the week we had a sky full of clouds with only a few drops of rain. It was fun to watch the clouds sweep across the dark sky. It defiantly felt like fall.
Most nights Mr. B and I like to sit on our back deck in the evening. We have a glass of wine and talk about our day or make a plan for the future and enjoy the various birds in the yard.
One little chickadee has lived in the light fixture shown above for the past two years. We are not real sure why he or she has chosen this as her permanent home but it has been fun to greet her each evening right before sunset as she first lands in a nearby tree and makes a little call. She checks to make sure that it is safe and in the blink of an eye she flies from the tree, under the deck umbrella and up into the light fixture!
Last night I thought I would finally catch a photo of her.
I set up my tripod about an hour before sunset and put the camera on "Machine gun fire" so I would hopefully capture her approach and quick entrance.
But nope....with no warning call...........she was in there lickety-split......dang......
It was a wonderful evening and we lit a candle as the sky darkened and then I saw this......
Aliens?
Helicopters?
It lasted for several minutes and then "poof" it just disappeared.
Later we found out that Vandenberg Air Force Base had launched a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the west coast. We didn't know about it before hand but were glad that our little bird helped us to experience the sight!
"It's not the falling down that counts.
It's the getting up."
--Mary Pickford
